 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
 | 1869 - Страниц: 862
...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...dramatists of the preceding age, such as Shakespeare, Ben Joneon, and Fletcher. This superiority mainly consisted, he tells us, in rejecting such old words and... | |
 | 1845 - Страниц: 816
...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - Страниц: 360
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - Страниц: 480
...is praia'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree < Our native language mure 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 - 1874 - Страниц: 740
...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - Страниц: 494
...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... | |
 | William Spink - 1890 - Страниц: 148
...learned it. Dryden says of these writers what might be equally applied to most other play-work — " Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation than those poets writ. " Sensible people must think it a waste of time and money to visit the theatre to find the characters... | |
 | 1892 - Страниц: 494
...is praised. Wit's now arrived at 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. (ib.) Immerhin aber forderte die kühnheit seiner worte den Widerspruch von leuten wie Rochester heraus... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1899 - Страниц: 620
...even Jonson — behind, because their age had been altogether distanced by the new generation : ' Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ.' This arrogance having justly given offence, and Rochester, Tin who in a fit of spleen at the success... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - Страниц: 420
...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. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; , That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates... | |
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