 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 pages
...but the age is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...is, consequently, true ; That what this poet writes comea short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else his writing is not worse than... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit a In conversation, than those poets writ. Then, one...than theirs. " Yet, though you judge (as sure the crities will), That some before him writ with greater skill. In this one praise he has their fame surpsss'd,... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - Demonology - 1869 - 486 pages
...high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more xvit In conversation, than those poets writ. Then, one...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast.... | |
 | 1869 - 1500 pages
...is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree, Our native language more refined and free, Cur ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation than those poets writ." And in an elaborate prose defence of the Epilogue he deliberately maintains that the language of the... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...degree ; Our native language more refined and free ; 'Our ladies and our men now speak more wit 25 i In conversation, than those poets writ. Then, one...fears), Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. 30 Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will) That some before him writ with greater skill, In... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...but the age is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree : Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...fears), Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. 80 Yet though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill. In... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 694 pages
...the old poets — even Jonson — behind, because the whole age had made an advance upon theirs : ' Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ.' This arrogance having justly given offence, and Rochester, who in a fit of spleen at the success of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...but the age is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree; Our native language more refined and free ; Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1883 - 494 pages
...but the age is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 490 pages
...but the age is praised. Wit 's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true j That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else... | |
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Tis not the' poet, but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. 
