| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...fpoils of thofe writers he fo reprefents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and culloms, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had feen lefs of it than in him. If there was any fault in his lang uage, 'twas that he weav'd it too clofely... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies,...than in him. If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he weaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially : perhaps too, he did... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies,...than in him. If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he weaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially : perhaps too, he did... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies and customs, that if one of their poets had written cither of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him. If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he weavcd it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially: perhaps too, he did... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the spoils of these writers he so represented Rome to us, in his rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies,...than in him. If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he weaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially : perhaps too, "Tie... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...the spoils of these writers he so represented Rome to us, in his rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies,...than in him. If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he vreaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially : perhaps too, he... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...to us, in his rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of bis tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him. If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he weaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially : perhaps too, he did... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies,...his language, it was, that he weaved it too closely VOL. xv. z and laboriously, in his comedies especially : perhap* too, he did a little too much Romanize... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies...there was any fault in his language, it was that he wcaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially : perhaps too he did a little too... | |
| David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 416 pages
...rites, ceremonies, and cus" toms, that if one of their poets " had written either ot" his tra«e" dies, we had seen less of it than " in him. If there was...language, it was, that he " weaved it too closely and labo" riouslv, in his comedies espe" daily : perhaps too, he did a " little too much Romanize our "... | |
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