 Tis not the poet, but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ.  The North British Review - Стр. 391869Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Dryden - 1900 - Страниц: 412
...higher rais'd, Wit 's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; j That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates... | |
 | William Edward Bohn - 1907 - Страниц: 98
...is prais'd. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ." no victory from oar wit This being what I have proposed to myself, I hope I shall not be thought arrogant... | |
 | University of Nevada - 1908 - Страниц: 468
...remarks that, Wit's now ariv'd to a more high degree; Our native Language more refin'd and free. Our Ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ.2 Pordage, in the Epistle Dedicatory to The Siege of Babylon, wrote: Wit is refined, and Ingenuity... | |
 | 1892 - Страниц: 1058
...is prais'd. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ." no victory from our wit. This being what I have proposed to myself, I hope I shall not be thought arrogant... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - Страниц: 1112
...is prais'd. Wit 's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refiird and free. Our ton Mifflin wr;t. Then, one of these is, consequently, true; That what this poet writes cornea short of you, And... | |
 | Clayton Meeker Hamilton - 1910 - Страниц: 276
...for weight. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree; Our native language more refined and free: Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation than those poets writ. This criticism was characteristic of a new era that was dawning in the English drama, during which... | |
 | Herbert Wynford Hill - 1911 - Страниц: 170
...remarks that, Wit's now ariv'd to a more high degree; Our native Language more refin'd and free. Our Ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ.2 Pordage, in the Epistle Dedicatory to The Siege of Babylon, wrote: Wit is refined, and Ingenuity... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - Страниц: 426
...threadbare love-songs, though Waller ar1d Herrick were still among them. They echoed his judgement that Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation than those poets writ, the poets being Ben Jonson ' in his height ', and his famous fellows. They agreed with him in thinking... | |
 | John Dryden - 1921 - Страниц: 332
...prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our kdies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates... | |
 | Arthur Irwin Dasent - 1924 - Страниц: 362
...'twas coarse. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. Yet though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill, In this... | |
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