 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pàgines
...to a thousand more reflections, without examining their St. Lewii, their Pucelle, OF their Alarte. The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...who neither of them wanted either genius or learning tc have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. For there is no uniformity... | |
 | 1912 - 396 pàgines
...Virgil, he criticised Lucan, Statius, Ariosto, and Tasso, scorned utterly the French epics, and added : "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 Spenser: he aims a* the accomplishment... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1914 - 232 pàgines
...Latin or Greek is often preserved : eg contrdrie , SOME CRITICISMS OF SPENSER JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) " 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 Spenser : he aims at the accomplishment... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 266 pàgines
...Spenser's lack of uniformity, as we do, but puts him above all others as regards sublimity of expression: 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 Spenser; he aims at the accomplishment... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pàgines
...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 T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pàgines
...doubt. Dryden offers an early expression of this frustration: The English have only to boast of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either Genius...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 Spencer . . . Had he liv'd... | |
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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. 
