 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - Počet stránok 786
...of other poets, and nimis poela,* if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behavior and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but it is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends — it was auribus istius temporis accomtnodata.'... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - Počet stránok 780
...profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer followed nature everywhere ; hut was never so bolil to go beyond her: and there is a great difference of being ^MMftt, 1 Cowley. and nimis poeta,1 if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behavior... | |
 | Greek - 1859 - Počet stránok 568
...disease have caught." Nimis poeta. Lat. — " Too much of a poet." " There is a great difference in being poeta and nimis poeta, if we may believe Catullus,...much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation : " that is to say, in being a Nimiurn altercando veritas amittitur. Lat. prov. — " In excessive... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - Počet stránok 480
...greatdifference of heing Poeta and minis Pocta, if we helieve Catullus, as much as hetwixt a modest hehaviour and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; hut it is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was aurihus istius temporis ao commodata... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - Počet stránok 612
...Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature everywhere ; but was never so bold as to go beyond her. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but it is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was suited to the ears of his time ; they... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - Počet stránok 874
...had begun to take an interest in Chaucer, hinted that the fault lay in eighteenth-century ears : . ** The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but 'tis like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribin isfii/s tcniporis accommodate, : they who lived with him and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - Počet stránok 766
...profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer followed nature everywhere ; but was never so bold to go beyond her : and there is a great difference of being poeta, and nimis poetaf if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixl a modest behavior*and affectation. The verse... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - Počet stránok 580
...Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature everywhere ; but was never so bold as to go beyond her. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but it is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was suited to the ears of his time ; they... | |
 | Lars Edman - 1861 - Počet stránok 100
...Ancients excepting Virgil and Horace. — Chaucer followed Nature every where, but was never so bold as to go beyond her and there is a great difference of being poeta el nimis poSta, if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - Počet stránok 788
...profanely, Nol being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer followed nature everywhere ; hut was never so bold to go beyond her: and there is a great difference of being poeta, 1 Cowlpy. and nimis poeta, 1 if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behavior and affectation.... | |
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Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta, if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess,... 
