 ... expresses so much the conversation of a gentleman, as Sir John Suckling ; nothing so even, sweet, and flowing, as Mr Waller ; nothing so majestic, so correct, as Sir John Denham ; nothing so elevated, so copious, and full of spirit, as Mr Cowley.  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - الصفحة 301بواسطة John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | John Dryden - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...elevated, so copious, and full of spirit, as Mr. Cowley. As for the Italian, French, and Spanish plays, I can make it evident, that those who now write, surpass...wholly ours. All of them were thus far of Eugenius his6 opinion, that the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...elevated, so copious, and full of spirit, as Mr. Cowlcy. As for the Italian, French, and Spanish plays, I can make it evident, that those who now write, surpass...drama is wholly ours. All of them were thus far of Eugcnius h opinion, that the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers;... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...elevated, so copious, and full of spirit, as Mr. Cowley. As for the Italian, French, and Spanish plays, I can make it evident, that those who now write, surpass...wholly ours. All of them were thus far of Eugenius las opinion, that the sweeiness of Engl,sh verse was never understood or practised hy our fathers;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...elevated, so copious, and Cull of spirit, as Mr. Cowley. As for the Italian, French, and Spanish plays, I can make it evident, that those who now write, surpass...them were thus far of Eugenius his opinion, that the sweeiness of English verse was never understood or practised hy our fathers ; even Crites himself did... | |
 | 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...well as many scattered passages in subsequent prefaces and dedications. All the interlocutors agree that "the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers," and that " our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living, who first taught... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...well as many scattered passages in subsequent prefaces and dedications. All the interlocutors agree that " the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers," and that " our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living, who first taught... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...well as many scattered passages in subsequent prefaces and dedications. All the interlocutors agree that "the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers," and that " our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living, who first taught... | |
 | 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...lighted, soon spent. And oiicc we were such darlings I So farts it Y.'nh many and many a one," , able the opinion " that the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers." Cowley could see nothing at all in Chaucer's poetry. Dryden heartily admired it, and, as we have seen,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...made advance, in poetry, beyond all its predecessors. Dryden regards as not seriously disputable the opinion ' that the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers.' Cowley could see nothing at all in Chaucer's poetry. Dryden heartily admired it, and, as we have seen,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...made advance, in poetry, beyond all its predecessors. Dryden regards as not seriously disputable the opinion ' that the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers.' Cowley could see nothing at all in Chaucer's poetry. Dryden heartily admired it, and, as we have seen,... | |
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