 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - Počet stránok 626
...admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find to say is that ' there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.' Addison, wishing to praise Chaucer's numbers, compares them with Dryden's own. And all through the... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - Počet stránok 478
...in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing." Waller went further : — " Chancer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1888 - Počet stránok 364
...exquisite manner 36 ESSAYS IN CRITICISM i and movement all he can find to say is that ' there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.' Addison, wishing to praise Chaucer's numbers, compares them with Dryden's own. And all through the... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - Počet stránok 730
...tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he M who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - Počet stránok 728
...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 he38 who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1894 - Počet stránok 560
...(Pref. to the Fables). ' The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; ... 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 - 1894 - Počet stránok 558
...(Pref. to the Fables). ' The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; ... 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - Počet stránok 650
...admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find to say is that ' there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.' Addison, wishing to praise Chaucer's numbers, compares them with Dryden's own. And all through the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - Počet stránok 652
...admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find to say is that ' there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.' Addison, wishing to praise Chaucer's numbers, compares them with Dryden's own. And all through the... | |
 | 1895 - Počet stránok 610
...in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect." At the same time, it is no doubt necessary, in order to verify the correctness of a less balanced judgment,... | |
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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... 
