 | James Russell Lowell - 1874 - 400 pàgines
...using it myself, and if the public approve of it the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry ; every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate."* This is admirably said, and with Dryden's accustomed penetration to the root of the matter. The Latin... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1881 - 408 pàgines
...using it myself ; and if the public approves of it, the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry : every man therefore...not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 pàgines
...using it myself, and if the public approve of it the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry ; every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate."* This is admirably said, and with Dryden's accustomed penetration to the root of the matter. The Latin... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 pàgines
...using it myself, and if the public approve of it the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry; every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate." l This is admirably said, and with Dryden's accustomed penetration to the root of the matter. The Latin... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1892 - 378 pàgines
...using it myself; and if the public approves of it, the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry; every man, therefore,...not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pàgines
...myself; and, if the public approves of it, the \ bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish between j pedantry and poetry : every man, therefore, is not fit to / innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in 3° the Latin, and is to consider,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 pàgines
...beautiful in 30 the Latin, and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom : after this, he ought to take the opinion of judicious friends, such as are learned in both languages : and, lastly, since no man is infallible, let him use this licence... | |
 | John Dryden - 1903 - 220 pàgines
...myself; and if the public approves of it, the bill passes. . . . Upon the whole matter a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin, and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom : after this, he ought to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1903 - 222 pàgines
...beautiful in the Latin, and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom : after this, he ought to take the opinion of judicious friends, such as are learned in both languages ; and lastly, since no man is infallible, let him use this licence... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pàgines
...using it myself, and if the public approve of it the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry ; every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate." ' This is admirably said, and 1 A Discourse of Epick Poetry. " If the public approve." " On ne peut... | |
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But every man cannot distinguish between pedantry and poetry: every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin, and is to consider, in the next... 
