 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 sivua
...musical ; and it -continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: — there is the rude sweetness...last edition of him ; for he would make us believe * Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer was published in 1597 and 1602. The preface contains the passage... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 564 sivua
...natural and pleafing, though not perfect It is true, I cannot go fo far as he who publifhed the hilt edition of him ; for he would make us believe the...fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten fyllables in a verfe where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is fo grofs... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 sivua
...musical ; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : — there is the rude sweetness...last edition of him ; for he would make us believe * Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer was published in 1597 .and 1602. The preface contains the passage... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 sivua
...musical; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries. There is the rude sweetness of...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... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 sivua
...musical; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries. There is the rude sweetness of...far as he who published the last edition of him, for be would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there are really ten syllables in a verse,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 sivua
...even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : — 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he, who published the last edition of him [Mr. Speght] ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 sivua
...even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate andGower, his contemporaries : — 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he, who published the last edition of him [Mr. Speght] ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 sivua
...not inclined to admit Dryden's insensibility to its music. There is the rude sweetness, he writes, of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. In this little sentence he seems to convey a very just idea of the matter. The occasional ruggedness... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 sivua
...musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numhers of Litigate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, l cannot go so far as he who puhlished the last edition of him ; for he would make us helieve the fault... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 sivua
...musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of...tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though riot perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would... | |
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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... 
