 The age of Dryden, together with our whole eighteenth century which followed it, sincerely believed itself to have produced poetical classics of its own, and even to have made advance, in poetry, beyond all its predecessors.  Publications: Second Series - Stranica 108napisao/la Chaucer Society (London, England) - 1921Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Broj stranica: 624
...write, surpass them ; and that the drama is 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 ; even Crites himself did not much oppose it : and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - Broj stranica: 634
...now write, surpass them; and that the 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; even Critcs himself i'ul not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Broj stranica: 432
...now write, surpass them; and that the drama is wholly ours. All of them were thus far of Eugenius his opinion, that the 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 how much our... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - Broj stranica: 432
...write, surpass them ; and that the drama is wholly ours. All of them were thus far of Eugenius his opinion, that the 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 how much our poesy... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - Broj stranica: 488
...write, surpass them ; and that the drama is wholly ours. All of them were thus far of Eugenius his opinion, that the 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 how much our... | |
 | 1868 - Broj stranica: 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 - 1898 - Broj stranica: 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... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - Broj stranica: 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - Broj stranica: 628
...question is, whether it will be found to coincide with the real estimate. The age of Dryden, together with our whole eighteenth century which followed it, sincerely...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 - Broj stranica: 632
...question is, whether it will be found to coincide with the real estimate. The age of Dryden, together with our whole eighteenth century which followed it, sincerely...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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