 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1779 - 566 pages
...and honour now are higher rais'd, .** It's not the poet, but the age is prais'd : " Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree, " Our native language more refined and free. " Our ladies and our men now fpeak more wit ff In converfation, than thofe poets writ." The The high opinion Dryden had of himfelf... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1779 - 572 pages
...and honour now are higher rais'd, ** It's not the poet, but the age is prais'd : " Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree, *? Our native language more refined and free. . ** Our ladies and our men now fpeak more 'wit " In converfation than thofe poets writ.'"', ' The high opinion Dryden had of himfelf... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refin'd and free : Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; That what this poet writes, comes short of you, And imitates you ill, (which most he fears,) Or else... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refin'd and free : Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true; That what this poet writes, comes short of you, And imitates you ill, (which most he fears,) Or else... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 pages
...his own. If love and honour now are higher raised, 'Tis not the poet, but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language...poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true; That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 pages
...age is prais'd : '•, Wit's now arrived to a more high degree, " Our native language more refin'd and free. " Our ladies and our men now speak more wit " In conversation, ihan those poets writ." • Tlie The high opinion Dryden had of himself, and of his age, breaks out... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...his own. If love and honour now are higher raised, 'Tis not the poet, but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language...poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears,) Or else... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...Think it not envy, that these truths are told ; Our poet "s not malicious, though he 's bold. 'T is not to brand them, that their faults are shown, But,...poets writ. Then one of these is, consequently, true ; That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...his own. If love and honour now are higher raised, 'Tis not the poet, but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language...poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 566 pages
...his own. If love and honour now are higher raised, 'Tis not the poet, but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree; Our native language...poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else... | |
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Tis not the poet, but the age is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. 
