 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 strani
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers; even Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge...writers yet living; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 strani
...opinion that the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers . . . and every one was willing to acknowledge how much...writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 strani
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers ; even Crites himself did not much oppose it : and every one was willing to...writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words ; 20 to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 414 strani
...sweetness of English verse was never under-10 stood or practised by our fathers ; even Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved by the hap.pjnegs of some writers yet living; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant... | |
 | Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - 1990 - 356 strani
...skeptical of the achievements of modern writers, opposes Eugenius. On the contrary, Dryden reports, "every one was willing to acknowledge how much our...writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | Greg Harkin - 2001 - 340 strani
...forms of poetic dissonance apparent in our examples from Cowley. As early as 1667, Dryden speaks of "the happiness of some Writers yet living; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easie and significant words; to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 strani
...understood or practised by our fathers — even Crites himself did not much oppose it and everyone was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved...writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | John Dryden - 312 strani
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers — even Crites himself did not much oppose it and every one was willing to acknowledge...writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1966 - 112 strani
...were taking place in poetry, and in prose. We find such observations as these: Our Poesie is improv'd by the happiness of some Writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easie and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
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Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved, by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities... 
