 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pàgines
...the poet, but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refin'd and free : Our ladies and our men now speak...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the criticks will) That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpass'd,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pàgines
...the poet, but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refin'd and free : Our ladies and our men now speak...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the criticks will) That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpass'd,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pàgines
...but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 pàgines
...but the age is prais'd : '•, Wit's now arrived to a more high degree, " Our native language more refin'd and free. " Our ladies and our men now speak more wit " In conversation, ihan those poets writ." • Tlie The high opinion Dryden had of himself, and of his age, breaks out... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pàgines
...but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free ; Our ladies and our men now speak more wit....writing is not worse than theirs. Yet, though you jadge (as sure the crities will) That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pàgines
...but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...(which most he fears), Or else his writing is not wprse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pàgines
...but the age is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill. In this one praise he has their fame surpast,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pàgines
...but the age is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imilates you ill (which most he fears), Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. Yet, though you... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pàgines
...but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 pàgines
...poet, but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he feats), Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will),... | |
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Tis not the' poet, but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. 
