 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - Počet stránok 788
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his versos, which are lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - Počet stránok 554
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children, before we grow men. There was an... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1864 - Počet stránok 214
...language, is the apparent deficiency of his verses. Many will appear to him, to use Dryden'a expression, "lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one." But it will rarely happen that a verse will appear redundant. This fact alone should have awakened... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1864 - Počet stránok 202
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of verses, which are lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation... | |
 | John Walker - 1865 - Počet stránok 800
...was not so fastidious as his successors became, and Dry den had consequently reason to say : — " It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of...that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at first." It is difficult, from the very abundance, to select a passage... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Počet stránok 784
...always practised in Chaucer's age. It wde an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses, whicn are lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a...that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children, before we grow men. There was an... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - Počet stránok 556
...verse which we call Heroie, was cither not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were w tion could restore, And make our bodies what they...another thing. When once an interrupting pause is m the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1868 - Počet stránok 604
...of numbers In every verse which we call Heroick, was either not known, or not always practised, in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...verses, which are lame for want of half a foot, and sometime« a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise." This peremptory decision has... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - Počet stránok 420
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic, was eithei not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses, which are lame fof want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - Počet stránok 764
...every verse which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's at_rc'.|| It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of...one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. * Cowley. t Wilmot, Karl of Rochester, the poet and profligate, who died in 1680. t Dryden';) memory... | |
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... in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. 
