| John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 strani
...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 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 ; 'tis so gross... | |
| John Dryden - 1926 - 342 strani
...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 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 con- -; futing ; 'tis so... | |
| John Dryden - 1928 - 54 strani
...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 the fault is in our ears, and that there 25 were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting... | |
| 1909 - 498 strani
...pleasing, tho' not perfect. 'T is true, I cannot go so far as he who publish'd the last edition of him;1' 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; 'tis so gross... | |
| Dennis Freeborn - 1998 - 502 strani
...perfect. and he criticised the editor of an earlier late- 16th century printed edition of Chaucer, ... 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; 'tis so gross... | |
| Stephanie Trigg - 2002 - 312 strani
...Chaucer's meter and his incomplete pentameters, at the expense of Thomas Speght, "he who publish'd 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" (1453, lines 338-40l. Dryden thus adopts and elaborates... | |
| John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 strani
...pleasing, though not perfect. 'IV, true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him;0 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; 'tis so gross... | |
| John Dryden - 2002 - 612 strani
...natural and pleasing, 385 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 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; 'tis so gross... | |
| 62 strani
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who publish'd 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 ; 'tis so gross... | |
| Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 strani
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who puhlish'd 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 ; 'tis so gross... | |
| |