 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 pàgines
...himself, and as Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. Bis urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended; but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. Juvenal is of a more vigorous and masculine wit; he... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pàgines
...Where he barely grins himself, and, as Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners,...are to be commended, but his wit is faint ; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. '''Juvenal is of 25 a more vigorous and masculine wit... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 pàgines
...himself, and, as Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. H is urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint ; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. Juvenal is of 25 a more vigorous and masculine wit ;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pàgines
...Where he barely grins himself, and, as Scaliger says, only shews his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners,...are to be commended, but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to »ay go, almost insipid. Juvenal is of a more vigorous and masculine wit; he... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pàgines
...Where he barely grins himself, and, as Scaliger says, only shews his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his I wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. Juvenal is of a more vigorous... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pàgines
...Where he barely grins himself, and, as Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners,...are to be commended, but his wit is faint ; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. Juvenal is of 2d a more vigorous and masculine wit ;... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 pàgines
...virtues, 'After all, I must confess that the delight which Horace gives me is but languishing. ... His urbanity, that is his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint ... Juvenal is of a more vigorous and masculine wit; he gives me as much pleasure as I can bear ,..'23... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pàgines
...Where he barely grins himself, and, as Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners,...are to be commended, but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. Juvenal is of a more vigorous and masculine wit; he... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pàgines
...Concerning Satire": [Horace] may ravish other men; but I am too stupid or insensible to be tickled... His urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. Juvenal is of a more vigorous and masculine wit; he... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pàgines
...Concerning Satire": [Horace] may ravish other men; but I am too stupid or insensible to be tickled . . . His urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. Juvenal is of a more vigorous and masculine wit; he... | |
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Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. 
