 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 296 sivua
...his Preface to the Fables, he adds further, " I prefer in Chaucer, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of...the epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Iliad or Eneid : the story is more pleasing than either of them, the manner as perfect, and the disposition... | |
 | 1956
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| 1956
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 | John Dryden - 1855
...right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of Falamon and Arcite, which is of the Epic kind, and perhaps...not much inferior to the Ilias, or the jEneis. The story is more pleasing than cither of them, the manners as perfect, the diction as poetical, the learning... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859
...memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them hoth ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman, far ahove all his other stories, the nohle poem of Palamon and Areito, which is of the Epic kind, and perhaps... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1866
...its use in English ? Enumerate the personages who composed the pilgrim party. 5. Dry den speaks of ' the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of...epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias and ./Eneis.' How does Dryden, and how far would you, justify this praise ? How old was Chaucer when... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 445 sivua
...memory had not failed me. Lei the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, one of Horace, into English. Concerning the first of these methods, our master Ho stories, the noble poem of Palamon and Ardte which is of the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 662 sivua
...right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman, far alwve all his other stoiies, the noble poem of " Paiamon and Arcite," which is of the epic kind, and perhaps not much rnferior to the Ilias or the /ICneis. The story is more pleasing than cither of them, the manners as... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874
...my memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them both, and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem •of Palamon and Arcite, which is of the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885
...latter were published under the name of Betterton. Malone, vol. iv. p. 631. me partial to Chaucer, it; is in him to right Boccace. I prefer, in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of " Palamon and Arcite," which is of the epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior... | |
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tis in him to right Boccace. I prefer, in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of the epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias, or the JEneis. 
