 | John Dryden - 1713 - 614 pages
...not of Dignity enough to appear in the Company of better Thoughts. I have prefum'd farther in fome Places, and added fomewhat of my own where I thought...deficient, and had not given his Thoughts their true Luftrc, for want of Words in the Beginning of our Language. And to this I was the more emboWen'd, becatife... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 526 pages
...my own where 1 thought my author vras deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true luftre, for want of words in the beginning of our language. And to this I was the more emboldened, becaufe (if 1 may be permitted to fay it of myfelf ) I found I had a foul congenial to his, and that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 pages
...not of dignity enough to appear in the company of better thoughts. I have prefumed farther, in fome places, and added fomewhat of my own where I thought...deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true luftre, for want of words in the beginning of our language. And to this I was the more emboldened,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 pages
...not of dignity enough to appear in the company of better thoughts. I have prefumed farther, in fome places, and added fomewhat of my own where I thought...deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true luftre, for want of words in the beginning of our language. And to this I was the more emboldened,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 352 pages
...not of dignity enough to appear in the company of better thoughts. I have prefuraed farther, in fome places, and added fomewhat of my own where I thought...deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true luftre, for want of words in the beginning of our language. And to this I was the more emboldened,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 360 pages
...appear in the company of better thoughts. I have prefumed farther, in fome places, and added fomewht:t of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true luftre, for want of words in the beginning of our language. And to this I was the more emboldened,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 pages
...own where I • thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true luftre, for want of words in the beginning of our language. And to this I was the more emboldened, becaufe (if I may be permitted to fay it of myfeif) I found I had a foul congenial to his, and that... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...not of dignity enough to appear in the Company of better thoughts. I have prefumed farther, in fome places, and added fomewhat of my own where I thought...deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true luftre, for want of words in the beginning of our language. And to this I was the more emboldened,... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...dignity enough to appear in the company of better tioughts. I have prefumed farther, in fome F!jces, and added fomewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not gi*«i his thoughts their true luftre, for want of *ords in the beginning of our language. And to ihii... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...appear in the company of better thoughts. I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own, where I thought my author was deficient,...our language. And to this I was the more emboldened, because, if I may be permitted to say it of myself, I found I had a soul congenial to his, and that... | |
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I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language. 
