 Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine; but this opinion is not worth confuting...  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Sivu 27tekijä(t) Samuel Johnson - 1779Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross and obvious an errour, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters of faith... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross and obvious an error, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters of faith... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross and obvious an error, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters of faith... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross and obvious an error, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters of faith... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine: but this opinion is not worth confuting; it is so gross and obvious an errour, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters of faith... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were, really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine: but this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross and obvious an errour, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matten of faith... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 sivua
...where he writeth thus : the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting; it is so gross and obvious an error, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters of faith... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there are really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross and obvious an error, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters of faith... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there are really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross aud obvious an error, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters of faith... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting ; 'tis so gross and obvious an error, that common sense (which is a rule in every thing but matters... | |
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