 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
 | Bonamy Dobrée - 1924 - Страниц: 192
...Wit's now arrived to a more high degree, Our native Language more refin'd and free. <• — r*" Our Ladies and our Men now speak more Wit, In Conversation, than those poets writ. .. The older poets, he argued, for all their ability could not have done what the men of his day were... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - Страниц: 230
...of date. 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. So said Dryden in an early epilogue.1 Another of his early statements, even more surprising to the... | |
 | Arthur Colby Sprague - 1926 - Страниц: 344
...the Earl sometimes lapses into couplets and on one occasion into stanzas. 1 Dryden had written: "Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ." (Epilogue to the Second Part of the Conquest oj Granada, 1672; and see The Defence of the Epilogue,... | |
 | H. James Jensen - 1969 - Страниц: 141
...the age: "Wit's now arrived 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 [Fletcher, Shakespeare, etc.] writ" (I. 167): I.EDP 30, 60, 68, 79, PAM 99, 99, PEL 149, 149, 149,... | |
 | Eugene M. Waith - 1988 - Страниц: 324
...are familiar: 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. (11. 23-26) The polish of Terence's style is similarly ascribed by some to his familiarity with Scipio... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - Страниц: 358
...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. 2 When he published the play, he included the epilogue and, despite the public outcry, defiantly kept... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - Страниц: 194
...is prais'd. 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. Then, one of these is, consequently, true; That what this Poet writes comes short of you, And imitates... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - Страниц: 484
...is praised. 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. Then one of these is, consequently, true: That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - Страниц: 194
...is prais'd. 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. Then, one of these is, consequently, true; That what this Poet writes comes short of you, And imitates... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - Страниц: 1024
...is praised. 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. Then one of these is, consequently, true; That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates... | |
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