 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - Počet stránok 532
...notice and his name had become v, mere memory, mentioned honoris causa but no more. ' Though he mast always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer,' said Dryden in 1700. Addison praised him with even more discrimination. Two editions of his works appeared... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - Počet stránok 522
...notice and his name had become t n. en.- memory, mentioned honoris causa but no more. 'Though he mast always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer,' said Uryden in 1700. Addison praised him with even more discrimination. Two editions of his works appeared... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - Počet stránok 422
...indulged himself in the luxury of writing; and perhaps knew it was a fault but hoped the reader would 5 not find it. For this reason, though he must always...had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester 10 said, though... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - Počet stránok 530
...never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small. . . . For this reason, though he must always be thought...had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelve month : for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - Počet stránok 522
...had sunk out of notice and his name had become a mere memory, mentioned honoris causa but no more. ' Though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer,' said Dryden in 1700. Addison praised him with even more discrimination. Two editions of his works appeared... | |
 | 1906 - Počet stránok 548
...Fables," Malone, III, 611. of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing; and perhaps knew it was a fault, but hoped the reader...had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for as my last Lord Rochester said, though... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - Počet stránok 424
...discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing, and perhaps knew it was a fault, but hoped the reader...had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelve-month; for as my last Lord Rochester said, though... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - Počet stránok 550
...discerning the beauties and faults of other poets ; but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing ; and perhaps knew it was a fault, but hoped the reader...poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and for the impressions which his works have had in so many successive years. Yet at present a hundred books... | |
 | Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld - 1907 - Počet stránok 234
...product of a rude age. Thus, Dryden, in the Preface to the Fables, to which Gray is referring, says : ' Though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer.' Again : ' The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us, ... they who lived with him, and... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Počet stránok 812
...poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing; and perhaps knew it was a fault, and hoped to find it. For this reason, though he must always be...had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though... | |
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For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth;... 
