 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - Počet stránok 670
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....learning, as it does of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that Nature was so much worn out... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Počet stránok 674
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language. For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other;3 and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Počet stránok 712
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language. For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other;3 and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Počet stránok 436
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....learning, as it does of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Počet stránok 442
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients; abating only for the language....learning, as it does of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - Počet stránok 626
...what I would infer is this : that in fuch an age, it is poffible fome great genius may arife, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....nature was fo much worn out in producing them, that me is never able to bear the like again, yet the example only holds in heroic poetry : in tragedy and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - Počet stránok 310
...that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise to equal any of the ancients, ahating only for the language; for great contemporaries whet...makes the common riches of learning, as it does of civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only poets of their species, and that... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - Počet stránok 448
...what I would infer is this, That in such an age, 'tis possible some great genius may arise to equal any of the ancients, abating only for the language...commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it doeg of civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only poets of their species, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - Počet stránok 440
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....learning, as it does of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 296
...what I would infer is this : that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....learning-, as it does of the civil government. ' But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out... | |
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For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other ; and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government. 
