| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pągines
...AND MILTON. [In epic poetry] the English have only to lxj.-i.4t of Spenser and Milton, who neither >f them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. For there i- no uniformity in the design of Spenser: .lie aims at the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pągines
...Spenser and Milton. — From 'Disconrse on the Original and Progress of Satire,' 1693. [In epic poetry] the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genins or learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. For... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pągines
...wherewith the French can furnish us. Essay on Dramatic Poesy. ON SPEN8ER AND MILTON. [In epic poetry] lowphysicians going out of town in the plague time ; :,f them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable... | |
| William Russell - 1882 - 330 pągines
...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,...wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect p6ets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. "Partial Cadence," at the close of a... | |
| Francis Thayer Russell - 1882 - 330 pągines
...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,...wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect p<5ets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. "Partial Cadence," at the close of a... | |
| Francis Thayer Russell - 1882 - 332 pągines
...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 genins or learning to have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures."... | |
| John Dryden - 1887 - 420 pągines
...stale, weary, flat, and unprofitable taste of all French heroics. [St. Louis is not so bad. — ED.] 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... | |
| John Dryden - 1895 - 266 pągines
...to a thousand more reflections, without examining their St. Lewis, their Pacelle, or their Alarique: 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. For there is no uniformity in the design of Spenses: he aims at the accomplishment... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pągines
...to a thousand more reflections, without examining their St. Lewis, their Pucelle, or 5 their Alaric. 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 10 at the... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pągines
...to a thousand more reflections, without examining their Si. Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Altane. 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: be aims at the accomplishment... | |
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