 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 sidor
...of Juvenal, thus proceeds : " The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton in heroic poetry, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning...perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures : for there is no uniformity in the design of Spencer ; he aims at the accomplishment of no... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 sidor
...of Juvenal, thus proceeds : " The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton in heroic poetry, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning...perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures : for there is no uniformity in the design of Spencer ; he aims at the accomplishment of no... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 sidor
...without examining their St Louis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique. The English have only to boast of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted...perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. Dryden. yj.—On the Iliad of Homer. THE subject of the Iliad must unquestionably be admitted... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 444 sidor
...examining their St Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique.t The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius...learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them * Dryden's recollection seems here deficient. There is, no •doubt, a close imitation of the Iliad... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 sidor
...St Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique.t The English have only to boast of Spenser and Mirton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them * Dryden's recollection seems here deficient. There 5s, no doubt, a close imitation of the Iliad throughout... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 sidor
...examining their St. Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique4. The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius...perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures. For there is no uniformity in the design of Spenser: he aims at the accomplishment of no... | |
 | 1826 - 450 sidor
...examining their St. Louis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique. The Engliih have only to boaft of Spenfer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been prrfect poets, and yet botli of them are liable to many cenfures. For there is no uniformity in the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 sidor
...examining their St Louis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique. The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius...perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. DRYDEN. 27- ON THE ILIAD OP HOMER. THE subject of the Iliad must unquestionably be admitted... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 sidor
...to admit of a full descent at the period. Example. " In epic poetry the English have only to hoast of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted...perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." Exception. Abrupt and forcible language dispenses with (his rule of •harmony, and admits... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 sidor
...words, that it is the language of nature." " In epic poetry, the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius...perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. " Partial Cadence," at the close of a clause tchid forms complete sense. " Greatness... | |
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The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures. 
