 There is more of salt in all your verses than I have seen in any of the moderns or even of the ancients; but you have been sparing of the gall, by which means you have pleased all readers, and offended none.  Essays - Pàgina xviiper John Dryden - 1895 - 218 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pàgines
...vf- / fibly wanting in our great Roman. There is more of Salt in all your Verfes, than I have feen in any of the Moderns, or even of the Ancients : But you have been fparing of the Gall; by which means you have pleas'd all Readers, and offended none. Donn alone, of... | |
 | Juvenal - 1735 - 512 pàgines
...which is vtlibly wanting in our great Roman. There is more of Salt in all your Verfes, than I have feen in any of the Moderns, or even of the Ancients : But you have been fparing of the Gall ; bf which means you have pleas'd all Readers, and offended none. Donn alone, of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pàgines
...have been fparing of the gall ; by which means you have pleafed all readers, and offended none. Donn alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your verification. And were he tranflated into numbers, and Englifh, he would yet be wanting in the dignity... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pàgines
...have been fparingef the gall ; by which means you have pleafed all readers, and offended none. Donn alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent; but was not happy enough to arrive at your verification. And were he tranflated into numbers, and Englifh, he would yet be wanting in the dignity... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 398 pàgines
...which is vifibly wanting in our great Roman. There is more fait in all your verfes, than I have feen in any of the moderns, or even of the ancients : but you have been fparing of the gall ; by which means you have pleated all readers, and offended none. Donn alone, of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 390 pàgines
...which is vif:bly wanting in our great Roman. There is more df fait in all your verfes, than I have feen in any of the moderns, or even of the ancients : but you have been fparing Of 'the gall ; "by which means you have plesfed all readers, and offended none. Donne alone,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1130 pàgines
...of the gall ; by which means you have pjeafed all readers, and offended none. Donne alone, of alKour countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your verification. And were he translated into numbers and Englifh, he would yet be -wanting in, the dignity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 pàgines
....vifibly wanting in oi:r great Roman. There is more cf fait in. .all your verfes, than I have fecn in an.y of the moderns, or even of the ancients : but you havs been. Sparing «f the. gall; by which means you'have pleafed alkreaders, and offended none. Donne... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 388 pàgines
...is vifibly wanting in our great Roman. There is more •of fait in all your verfes, than I have feen in any of the moderns, or even of the ancients : but you have been fparing of the gall; by which means you have pleafed all readers, and offended none. Donne alone, of... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 912 pàgines
...greateft poet of our nation." In his dedication of Juvenal to the Earl of Dorfct, he fays: " Donne, alane, of all our countrymen, had your talent, but was not happy enough to arrive at your verification ; and were he translated into numbers and Englifli, he would yet be wanting in the dignity... | |
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