 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 sidor
...English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning tc have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. For there is no uniformity in the design of Spen' ser: he aims at the accomplishment of no... | |
 | 1912 - 396 sidor
...and Tasso, scorned utterly the French epics, and added : "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 a* the accomplishment of no... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1914 - 232 sidor
...contrdrie , SOME CRITICISMS OF SPENSER JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) " 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... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 268 sidor
...above all others as regards sublimity of expression: .... 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 - 1926 - 342 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 10 at the accomplishment of... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 sidor
...project into doubt. Dryden offers an early expression of this frustration: 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. For there is no Uniformity in the Design of Spencer . . . Had he liv'd to finish his Poem... | |
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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. 
