 | 1880 - 402 sivua
...praised its matter admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 626 sivua
...praised its matter admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 sivua
...praised its matter admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 sivua
...praised its matter admirably; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find 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... | |
 | 1880 - 566 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 626 sivua
...praised its matter admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find 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... | |
 | 1883 - 778 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,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 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...though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as het who published * [Not Catullus, but Martial, iii. 44.— ED.] t, Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 sivua
...but of its exquisite manner 36 ESSAYS IN CRITICISM i and movement all he can find 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 sivua
...its matter admirably; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find to say is that ' theie 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... 
