 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 T. Lynch - 2003 - Страниц: 244
...Nearly all moderns have a leg up on the Renaissance: Dryden writes of the authors of the last age, "Our Ladies and our men now speak more wit / In conversation than those Poets writ." He writes elsewhere that Elizabethan authors, "had they liv'd now, had doubtless written more correctly... | |
 | Joseph Arrowsmith, Juan A. Prieto Pablos - 2003 - Страниц: 206
...main reasons: 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. (11: 20 1 ; 23-26) As the poet himself conceded, this was a bold claim. He therefore set out to substantiate... | |
 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff - 2004 - Страниц: 370
...conformed his genius to the age. He grounds his boast on a general advance of civilization or manners: 'Our Ladies and our men now speak more wit / In conversation, than those Poets writ' - those poets being 'Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson' (11:201, 204). This view of contemporary mores... | |
 | Daniel James Ennis, Judith Bailey Slagle - 2007 - Страниц: 272
...generation: 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. (53-56) Dryden, in a clever semantic shift, uses his audience's "wit" to compete with Shakespeare and... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - 1906 - Страниц: 790
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - Страниц: 612
...praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree, Our native language more refined and free. 25 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 im1tates... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1870 - Страниц: 788
...authors of the past generation, he said, " Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped ;" and that Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets -.vi it .t A better acquaintance with his audience opened his eyes to its short-comings, and experience... | |
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