 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 pages
...the editor ventures to say, " He was, indeed, the Parent of English Verse, and the first that shewed us our Tongue had Beauty and Numbers in it. Our Language...does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy. * * * * The Tongue came into His hands a rough diamond : he ]x>lished it first; and to that degree,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 260 pages
...either great or graceful in poetry. He was indeed the parent of English verse, and the first that shew'd us our tongue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language owes more to him than the French to Cardinal Richlieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him, without being in the same... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 318 pages
...either great or graceful in poetry. He was indeed the parent of English verse, and the first that shew'd us our tongue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language owes more to him than the French to Cardinal Richlieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him, without being in the same... | |
 | Gustav Körting - 1887 - 440 pages
...erschien in zwei Teilen 1664, bezw. 1690 (der Herausgeber des 2. Teiles sagt in der Vorrede von W. „Our language owes more to him, than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy", eine arge Lüge!). § 233. John Denham. L Leben. JD, geb. zu Dublin 1615, studierte zu Cambridge, trat... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 308 pages
...volume of Waller's Posthumous Poems, published in 1690, sums up the contemporary verdict on the poet. ' Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy. The tongue came into his hands like a rough diamond ; he polished it first, and to that degree that... | |
 | Voltaire - 1909 - 346 pages
...Mr. Waller' s Poems, 169o: « He was indeed the parent of English verse, and the first that shew'd us our tongue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language...French does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy . . . The tongue came into his hands likea rough diamond. Hepolish'd it first. » (Ed. Fenton . ) —... | |
 | Gustav Körting - 1910 - 880 pages
...erschien in zwei Teilen 1664, bezw. 1690 (der Herausgeber des 2. Teiles sagt in der Vorrede von W. „Our language owes more to him, than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy", eine arge Lüge!). — Poems, ed. by THORN DBURY, Lond. 1893. — GOSSE hat in seinem Buche „From... | |
 | John L. Moore - 1910 - 214 pages
...the editor of the second part of the first edition of WALLER'S Poems (1690) declares of the latter, " our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy ! " 1) Nearer the mark is LANGUAGE'S note on Lyly that he was "one of the first writers, that in those... | |
 | Wilhelm Zenke - 1910 - 588 pages
...editor of the second part of the first edition of WALLER'S Poems (1690) declares of the latter, "onr language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy!"1) Nearer the mark is LANGBAINE'S note on Lyly that he was "one of the first writers, that... | |
 | Voltaire - 1924 - 342 pages
...Poems, 1690 : « He was indeed thé parent of English verse, and thé first that shew'd us our longue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language owes more to him than thé French does to Cardinal Richelieu and thé whole Academy... The longue came into his hands like... | |
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Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way. 
