 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1866 - 498 sivua
...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,...there were really ten syllables in a verse where we flnd but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting ; 'tis so gross and obvious an error, that common... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 sivua
...musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate arid Gower, too be the same, All full of thee, and differing but...To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose. Ver. I3S. EO far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1867 - 680 sivua
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 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 sivua
...musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of I.yclgate and Cower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 sivua
...continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his crnlemperaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and phasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannoi ц;о so far as he who published the last edition... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1873 - 488 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...which is natural and pleasing though not perfect." 2 1 The following pleasant little story occurs in that old collection of questionable archaeology,... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1900 - 622 sivua
...Musical; and it continues so even in our Judgment, if compar'd with the Numbers of Lidgate and Go wer his Contemporaries: There is the rude Sweetness of...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. ' Göttingen, Febr. 1900. Heinrich Spies. DEKKER- STUDIEN. Prolegomena zur geschichte der Pleasant... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1879 - 220 sivua
...in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect." At the same time, it is no doubt necessary, in order to verify the correctness of a less balanced judgment,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sivua
...the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tone in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect....; for he 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... | |
 | 1880 - 400 sivua
...praised its matter admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can flud to say is that " there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it,...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect." Addison, wishing to praise Chaucer's numbers, compares them with Dryden 's own. And all through the... | |
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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... 
