 | Edward Phillips - 1800 - 440 sidor
...Cortegie, le' audaci Imprele, io canto.* " But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compofition by thofe laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 sidor
...Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compolition by thofe laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 sidor
...Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compofition by thole laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 sidor
...two first verses of his exordium : Bat it is ahsurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser hy precepts which they did not attend to. We, who live in the days of writing hy rule, are apt to try every composition hy those laws which we have heen taught to think the sole... | |
 | David Irving - 1841 - 448 sidor
...commodities here can make the only amends/or.— Temple on the Advancement of Trade. But it is ahurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to.— Warton's Observation* on Spenser. * Mason's Essay on the Power and Harmony of Prosaic Numbers, p. 20.... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 sidor
...has talents which are rapidly unfolding into life and vigor, and indomitable energies (§ S72). 17. It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. 18. Force was resisted by force, valor opposed by valor, and art encountered or eluded by similar address... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 sidor
...difficulties that can be raised, and which are not too captious, or too trivial, to take notice of." "It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or...Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to." ON ANTITHESIS. A period, when well constructed, has more strength than a loose sentence, because the... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1858 - 216 sidor
...their spirits. The faith he professed, and which he became an apostle of, was not his invention. But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. Shall the narrow-minded children of earth dare to treat as visionary, objects which they have never... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 sidor
...has talents which are rapidly unfolding into life and vigor, and indomitable energies (§ 372), 17. It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. 18. Force was resisted by force, valor opposed by valor, and art encountered or eluded by similar address... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 sidor
...their spirits. The faith he professed, and which he became an apostle of, was not his invention. But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. Shall the narrow-minded children of earth dare to treat as visionary, objects which they have never... | |
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Impros?, io canto*. |J3ut it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts ,which they did not attend to. 
