 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pàgines
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language. For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other;3 and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pàgines
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language. For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other;3 and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 pàgines
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients; abating only for the language....learning, as it does of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 pàgines
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....learning, as it does of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 pàgines
...what I would infer is this : that in fuch an age, it is poffible fome great genius may arife, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....nature was fo much worn out in producing them, that fhe is never able to bear the like again, yet the example only holds in heroic poetry : in tragedy and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pàgines
...what I would infer is this : that in fuch an age, it is poffible fome great genius may arife, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....nature was fo much worn out in producing them, that me is never able to bear the like again, yet the example only holds in heroic poetry : in tragedy and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pàgines
...that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise to equal any of the ancients, ahating only for the language; for great contemporaries whet...makes the common riches of learning, as it does of civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only poets of their species, and that... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pàgines
...what I would infer is this, That in such an age, 'tis possible some great genius may arise to equal any of the ancients, abating only for the language...commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it doeg of civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only poets of their species, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 pàgines
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....learning, as it does of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pàgines
...what I would infer is this : that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....learning-, as it does of the civil government. ' But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out... | |
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For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other ; and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government. 
