 Read all the prefaces of Dryden, For these our critics much confide in (Though merely writ at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling...  Dryden - Strana 183podľa George Saintsbury - 1901 - Počet stránok 192Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - Počet stránok 576
...Dido to ^Eueas." t " Read all the Prefaces of Dryden, For these our critics much confide in; Though merely writ at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling." SWIFT, On Poetry, a Rhapsody. POPE'S WORKS, Arranged chronologically in order of composition. VERSE.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - Počet stránok 368
...wit. • • • • Read all the prefaces of Dryden, For these our critics much confide in; Though merely writ at first for filling To raise the volume's price a shilling. While Dryden was engaged in translating Virgil, he published a translation of Du Fresnoy's Latin poem... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - Počet stránok 788
...hazards boldly quote. Read all the prefaces of Dryden, For those our critics much confide in; Though merely writ at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling. At Will's Lie snug, and hear what critics say. The critic to his grief will find How firmly these indentures... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - Počet stránok 878
...the poetaster to — " Head all the Prefaces of Dryden, For these our critics much confide in. Though merely writ, at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling-" " Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet," was the phrase of Dryden to 1m kinsman, which remained alive... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - Počet stránok 368
...profound Bossu ; Read all the prefaces of Dryden — For these our critics much confide in, (Though merely writ at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling.) Then, lest with Greek he overrun ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - Počet stránok 874
...the poetaster to — " Read all the Prefaces of Dryden, For these our critics much confide in, Though merely writ, at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling." " Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet," was the phrase of Dryden to his kinsman, which remained... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - Počet stránok 204
...* * On Poetry. 137 Read all the prefaces of Dryden, For these our critics much confide in ; Though merely writ at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling. ***** Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature ; The greater for... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - Počet stránok 490
...Beljame. f The long prefaces were not, as Swift said of Dryden's, in his lines " On Poetry, a Rhapsody," " Merely writ at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling " (and see also " A Tale of a Tub," sec. v.), but rather because there was no other means of reaching... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - Počet stránok 668
...the poetaster to — " Read all the Prefaces of Dryden, For these our critics much confide in, Though merely writ, at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling." '' Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet,'' was the phrase of Dryden to his kins* man, which remained... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - Počet stránok 500
...lieljume. f The long prefaces were not, as Swift said of Dryden's, in his lines "On Poetry, a Rhnpsody," " Merely writ at first for filling, To raise the volume's price a shilling" (and see also " A Tale of a Tub," sec. v.), but rather because there was no other means of reaching... | |
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