 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
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - 384 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 everything but matters... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 Dryden - 1867 - 556 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 everythiin: but matters of faith... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 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 everything but matters of faith... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 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 >o gross and obvious an error, that common sen.se (which is a rule in everything but matters... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sivua
...would make us believe the fault is in our eats,* 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 everything but matters of faith... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 sivua
...for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and 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 everything but matters of faith... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 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 1 Cowley. See Johnson's criticism of the metaphysical poets. 'That... | |
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