 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pàgines
...has this advantage above that made by words, that it is the language of nature." " In epic poetry, the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...to have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. — "Partial Cadence," at the close of a clause which forms complete... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 pàgines
...of a full descent at the period. Example. "In epic poetry the English have only to boast of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius...to have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." Exception. Abrupt and forcible language dispenses with this rule of harmony,... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pàgines
...of a full descent at the period. Example. " In epic poetry the English have only to boast of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them, wanted either genius...to, have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." Exception. Abrupt and forcible language dispenses with this rule of harmony,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pàgines
...to a thousand more reflections, without examining their St Louis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique. The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. DRYDEN. p 26. ON THE ILIAD OF HOMER. THE subject of the Iliad must unquestionably... | |
 | William Russell - 1861 - 312 pàgines
...has this advantage above that made by words, that it is the language of nature." " In epic poetry, the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or tearning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. — "Partial... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...to a thousand more reflections, without examining their St. Louis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique. The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted cither genius or learning to have been perfeot poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures.... | |
 | 1870 - 314 pàgines
...words, that it is the language of nature." " In epic poetry, the English have only to boast of Denser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius...to have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. — "Partial Cadence," at the close of a clause which forms complete... | |
 | 1871 - 308 pàgines
...has this advantage above that made by words, that it is the language of nature." " In epic poetry, the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...to have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. — "Partial Cadence" at the close of a clause which forms complete... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pàgines
...dissatisfied upon the review of anything that I have done in this author. SPENSER AND MILTON. [IN epic poetry] the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. For there is no uniformity in the design of Spenser ; he aims at the accomplishment... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - 1876 - 314 pàgines
...that it is the language of nature." '• In epic poetry, the English have only to boast of Spenser ind Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or...to have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. — "Partial Cadence," at the close of a clause which formt complete... | |
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The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures. 
