 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pàgines
...much as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel? Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care...his words and of his numbers? But he followed Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him : and I may safely say it of this present age,... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pàgines
...is not to be matched or d'me without. Look at Donne. Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and of his numbers? Whereas his verse is now — if verse it may be called — "A kind of hobbling prosa, Which limps along... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pàgines
...not to be matched or d >ne without. Look at Donne. Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and of his numbers? Whereas his verse is now — if verse it may be called — "A kind of hobbling prose, Which limps along... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...middle of the line. This break, by relieving the * [Would not Donne's satires, which abound with so much -wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and his numbers ? * * * I may safely say of this present age, that if we are not so great wits as Donne,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pàgines
...middle of the line. This break, by relieving the * [Would not Donne's satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and his numbers ? * * * I may safely say of this present age, that if we are not so great wits as Donne,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pàgines
...our nation.— DBYDEN : Dedication of Eleanors, 1692. Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and of his numbers ' .... I may safely say it of this present age, that if we are not so great wits as Donne, yet certainly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pàgines
...nation. — DKVDEN : Dedication of Eleonora, 1692. Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and of his mimbers ?....! may safely say it of this present age, that if we are not so great wits as Donne, yet... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 pàgines
...much as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel? Would not Donne's satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care...words, and of his numbers ? But he followed Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him : and I may safely say it of this present age,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - 420 pàgines
...much as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel ? Would not Donne's satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care...words, and of his numbers ? But he followed Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him ; and I may safely say it of this present age,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 pàgines
...much as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel? Would not Donne's satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care...words, and of his numbers ? But he followed Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him: and I may safely Bay it of this present age,... | |
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Horace so very close that of necessity he must fall with him; and I may safely say it of this present age, that if we are not so great wits as Donne, yet certainly we are better poets. 
