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" Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his rhymes, which are always good, and very often the better for being new. "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 10
edited by - 1779
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The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller - 1744 - 496 pages
...think me too nice, that He commonly clofes with Verbs ; in which we know the life of language confifts. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of His...had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that fenfe was cloy'd by the fame round of chiming words ftill returning upon it. "Pis a decided cafe by the Great...
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The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller - 1768 - 366 pages
...c!ores with Verbs; io which we know the life of language confifts. Among other improremenU, we raty reckon that of His rhymes: which are always good,...that fenfe was cloyed by the fame round of chiming word* flill returning opon it. It is a dec:ded cafe by the-Greac Mafler o£ writing, * " Qa« fant...
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The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...think me too nice, that He commonly clofes with Verbs ; in which we know the life of language coniifts. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of His...new. He had a fine -ear, and knew how quickly that ienfe was c'.oyed by the fame round of chiming words ftill returning upon it. It is a decided cafe...
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The Epistolary Correspondence, Visitation Charges, Speeches, and ..., Volume 2

Francis Atterbury - 1783 - 478 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly clofes with verbs, in which we know the life of language confifls. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his...good, and very often the better for being new. He He had a fine ear, and knew how "quickly that fenfe was cloyed by the fame round of chiming words ftill...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...

Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly closes with verbs, in which we know the life of language consists. Among other improvements we may reckon that of his...new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that sense was cloyed by the same round of chiming words .still returning upon it. It is a decided case...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...think me too nice, that be commonly closes with verbs; in which we know the life of language consists. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his...new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that sense was cloyed . i) the same r^ujid of chiming; w_qrds still reluming npfittil. ITuTa "3ecîdëd...
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From Shakespeare to Pope

Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 266 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly closes with verbs, in which we know the life of language consists. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his...new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that sense was cloy'd by the same round of chiming words still returning upon it. "Tis a decided case by...
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From Shakespeare to Pope

Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 260 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly closes with verbs, in which we know the life of language consists. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his...new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that sense was cloy'd by the same round of chiming words still returning upon it. "Tis a decided case by...
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From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the ...

Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 318 pages
...which we know the life of language consists. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his rimes. Which are always good, and very often the better for...new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that sense was cloy"d by the same round of chiming words still returning upon it. 'Tis a decided case by...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 3

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly closes with verbs, in which we know the life of language consists. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his...being new. He had a fine ear and knew how quickly that sense was cloyed by the same round of chiming words still returning upon it. It is a decided case by...
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