 | John Donne - 1895 - 326 sidor
...translation of Juvenal to the Earl of Dorset, asks, " Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and of his numbers 1" and still again, he says, with INTRODUCTION. XXV some excess of severity, " Were he (Donne) translated... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 420 sidor
...much as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel ? Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care...words and of his numbers ? But he followed Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him; and I may safely say it of this present age,... | |
 | Wightman Fletcher Melton - 1906 - 236 sidor
...Dryden's next criticism (1693) is more to our purpose : ' Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and his numbers ? But he followed Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him ; and I... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sidor
...much as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel ? Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care of his words, and of his numbers ? But he follow'd Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him; and I may safely say it of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sidor
...much as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel ? Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care of his words, and of his numbers ? But be follow'd Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him; and I may safely say it... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 sidor
...as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel ? Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so> much wit, appear more charming, if he had,; taken care of his words, and of his nnmj bers ? But he follow'd Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him; and I may... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 570 sidor
...Satires, is shown by the following remark of Dryden : " Would not Donne's satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming if he had taken care of his words and his numbers f But he follows Horace so very close that of necessity he must fall with him. " Discourse... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 sidor
...much as confine our bodies to one fashion of apparel ? Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care...words, and of his numbers ? But he followed Horace so very close, that of necessity he must fall with him ; and I may safely say it of this present age,... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 754 sidor
...little farther f53), Mr. Drydsn afttot * Wou,d nnt Donne,s Saryrs, * which ahoond with fo much wir, appear more * charming, if he had taken care of his words and of f*) Mr. Pope. , his nombers ?, Whether oor lare excellent poet f*) techis Sarires of took the hint... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 sidor
...preferable had he chosen to impose judgment upon it. "Would not Donne's Satires, which abound with so much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care of his words, and of his numbers?" (2: 102). McKeon remarks that in this period effeminacy was able to play a "positive role - in part,... | |
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Horace so very close that of necessity he must fall with him; and I may safely say it of this present age, that if we are not so great wits as Donne, yet certainly we are better poets. 
