 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - Počet stránok 554
...our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1864 - Počet stránok 202
...our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him [he alludes to Speght's... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1864 - Počet stránok 214
...the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him [he alludes to Speght's wretched edition of 1598] ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Počet stránok 784
...in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and phasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1866 - Počet stránok 498
...contemporaries: — 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he, who published the last edition of him [Mr. Speght] ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears,...there were really ten syllables in a verse where we flnd but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting ; 'tis so gross and obvious an error, that common... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - Počet stránok 556
...our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate arid Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go EO far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1868 - Počet stránok 604
...— Tis true, I cannot go so far as he, who published the last edition of him [Mr. Speght] ; for ho would make us believe the fault Is in our ears, and that there •*ere realJy ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - Počet stránok 786
...in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his crnlemperaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and phasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannoi ц;о so far as he who published the last edition... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1873 - Počet stránok 488
...in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries. There is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing though not perfect." 2 1 The following pleasant little story occurs in that old collection of questionable archaeology,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - Počet stránok 740
...our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe... | |
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They who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural... 
