 | Lauchlan MacLean Watt - 1920 - Počet stránok 274
...recognition. There are multitudes of words in his pages " which are never to be revived," as Dryden says, " any more than the crowds of men who daily die, or are slain for sixpence in a battle." In fact they never really lived, and were not repeated in the world... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - Počet stránok 342
...ornament of words, and sweetness of sound, unnecessary. One is 20 for raking in Chaucer (our English Ennius) for antiquated words, which are never to be revived, but when sound or significancy is wanting in the present language. But many of his deserve not this redemption,... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - Počet stránok 1024
...revived, but when sound or significance is wanting in the present language. But many of his deserve not this redemption, any more than the crowds of men who daily die, or are slain for sixpence in a battle, merit to be restored to life, if a wish could revive them. Others have... | |
 | Lauchlan MacLean Watt - Počet stránok 272
...recognition. There are multitudes of words in his pages " which are never to be revived," as Dryden says, " any more than the crowds of men who daily die, or are slain for sixpence in a battle." In fact they never really lived, and were not repeated in the world... | |
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But many of his deserve not this redemption any more than the crowds of men who daily die, or are slain for sixpence in a battle, merit to be restored to life if a wish could revive them. 
