 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...of Juvenal, thus proceeds : " The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton in heroic poetry, who neither of them wanted either genius 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 Spencer ; he aims at the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...examining their St Louis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique. The English have only to boast of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius...learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. Dryden. yj.—On the Iliad of Homer. THE subject of the Iliad must unquestionably... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 444 pages
...to a thousand more reflections, without examining their St Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique.t The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...Jerusalem ; but the death of the Swedish Prince was so far from being the motive of Rinaldo's return to the wars, that Rinaldo seems never to have heard either... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 pages
...St Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique.t The English have only to boast of Spenser and Mirton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning...Dryden's recollection seems here deficient. There 5s, no doubt, a close imitation of the Iliad throughout the Jerusalem ; but the death of the Swedish... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...a thousand more reflections; without examining their St. Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique4. The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...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... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pages
...examining their St. Louis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique. The Engliih have only to boaft of Spenfer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been prrfect poets, and yet botli of them are liable to many cenfures. For there is no uniformity in the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...to a thousand more reflections, without examining their St Louis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique. The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures. DRYDEN. 27- ON THE ILIAD OP HOMER. THE subject of the Iliad must unquestionably... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 pages
...has this advantage above that made by words, that it is the language of nature." " In epic poetry, the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 pages
...of a full descent at the period. Example. " In epic poetry the English have only to hoast of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius...to have been perfect poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many censures." Exception. Abrupt and forcible language dispenses with (his rule of •harmony,... | |
 | 1847 - 312 pages
...has this advantage above that made by words, that it is the language of nature." " In epic poetry, the English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton,...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... | |
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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. 
