 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 sidor
...of the ancients; (./^ but you have been sparing of the gall, by "'-•' which means you have pleas'd all readers^, and offended none. Donne alone, of all) ,/ our countrymen, had your talent; but was I not happy enough to arrive at your versification; and were he translated into numbers, and English,... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 sidor
...the sense, but itself be led and governed by it.' ' Donne alone ', Dryden tells the Earl of Dorset, ' of all our countrymen had your talent : but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 sidor
...Moderns, or even of the Ancients ; but you have been sparing of the gall, by which means you have pleased all readers, and offended none. Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; 10 but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers,... | |
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Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression. 
