 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 sidor
...AND MILTON. [In epic poetry] the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither :,f for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly...by their rules is the humour of a scholar: they per censures. For there is no uniformity in the design of Spenser : he aims at the accomplishment of no... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 sidor
...AND MILTON. [In epic poetry] the English have only to lxj.-i.4t of Spenser and Milton, who neither >f them wanted either genius or learning to have been...perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. For there i- no uniformity in the design of Spenser: .lie aims at the accomplishment of no... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 sidor
...poetry] the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genins or learning to have been 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... | |
 | Francis Thayer Russell - 1882 - 332 sidor
...poetry, the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genins or learning to have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. "Partial Cadence," at the close of a clause which forms complete sense. " Of Law there... | |
 | Francis Thayer Russell - 1882 - 330 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 or learning to have been perfect p<5ets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. "Partial Cadence," at the close of a... | |
 | William Russell - 1882 - 330 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 or learning to have been perfect p6ets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." 2. "Partial Cadence," at the close of a... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - 420 sidor
...of all French heroics. [St. Louis is not so bad. — ED.] 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 sidor
...examining their St. Lewis, their Pacelle, 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. For there is no uniformity in the design of Spenses: he aims at the accomplishment of no... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 sidor
...examining their St. Lewis, their Pucelle, or 5 their Alaric. 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 1o at the accomplishment of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sidor
...examining their St. Lewis, their Pucelle, or their A larie. 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... | |
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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. 
