 | John Dryden - 1928 - 54 pages
...appear in the company of better thoughts. I have presumed further, in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient,...had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for 10 want of words in the beginning of ourlanguage. And to this I was the more emboldened, because (if... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...appear in the company of better thoughts. I have presum'd 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 luster, for want of words in the beginning of our language. And to this I was the more embolden'd,... | |
 | Ruth Morse, Barry Windeatt - 2006 - 296 pages
...contribution to the development of English: In his modernizations Dryden claims to have 'added somewhat of my own where I thought my Author was deficient,...for want of Words in the Beginning of our Language'. But the language of Chaucer has by now become not only quaint but a positive barrier to understanding.... | |
 | Rainer Schulte, John Biguenet - 1992 - 264 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... | |
 | Kevin Dunn - 1994 - 266 pages
...appear in the company of better thoughts. I have presumed further, 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... | |
 | Jayne Elizabeth Lewis - 1996 - 248 pages
...just this light: with respect to Chaucer, for example, he confessed himself to have "added somewhat of my own where I thought my Author was deficient,...for want of Words in the beginning of our Language" (p. 1457). And, as in The Hind and the Panther, he saw the transmission both of signs and of literary... | |
 | Christopher Cannon - 1998 - 468 pages
...appear in the Company of better Thoughts. I have presum'd farther in some P1aces, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my Author was deficient,...for want of Words in the Beginning of our Language . . . Another Poet, in another Age, may take the same Liberty with my Writings; if at least they live... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 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,...for want of words in the beginning of our language. 37 And he is the more 'emboldened' to change where he will since he recognizes that his foot, too,... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - 2002 - 312 pages
...poems in his translations: I have presum'd farther in some Places, and added somewhat of my own where 1 thought my Author was deficient, and had not given...Beginning of our Language. And to this I was the more embolden'd. because (if 1 may be permitted to say it of my selfl I found I had a Soul congenial to... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...appear in the company of better thoughts. I have presumed further 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. 
