 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - English drama - 1908 - 416 pages
...Epilogue to " The Conquest " that he attacked the Elizabethans, vaunting the superiority of an age when "Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ." In 1671 came the burlesque " Rehearsal." which, if its attack did not centre on heroic plays, made... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1122 pages
...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...Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. Yet, tho' you judge (as sure the critics will) sThat some before him writ with greater skill, la this one... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...but the age is prais'd. Wit 's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refln d and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit...Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. Yet, tho' you judge (as sure the critics will) 31 That some before him writ with greater skill, In this... | |
 | Animal behavior - 1892 - 1058 pages
...but the age is prais'd. 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 In conversation, than those poets writ." no victory from our wit. This being what I have proposed to myself, I hope I shall not be thought arrogant... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...is prais'd. Wit 's now arriv'd to a more high degree.; Our native language more refin'd and fiejj. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. Then, cue of these is, consequently, trae.; Tiate, That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...but tlie age is prais'd. Wit 's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refiird I N N N N wr;t. Then, one of these is, consequently, true; That what this poet writes cornea short of you, And... | |
 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - English drama - 1910 - 570 pages
...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...you, And imitates you ill, (which most he fears,) SO Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. Yet, tho' you judge (as sure the critics will) That... | |
 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - English drama - 1910 - 582 pages
...prais'd. I Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refin'd and free. on- ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation,...consequently, true; That what this poet writes comes short of yon, And imitates you ill, (which most he fears,) SO Or else his writing is not worse than theirs.... | |
 | Clayton Meeker Hamilton - Drama - 1910 - 276 pages
...allowing grains for weight. 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 In conversation than those poets writ. This criticism was characteristic of a new era that was dawning in the English drama, during which... | |
 | Herbert Wynford Hill - 1911 - 170 pages
...Conquest of Granada remarks that, Wit's now ariv'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.2 Pordage, in the Epistle Dedicatory to The Siege of Babylon, wrote: Wit is refined, and Ingenuity... | |
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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. 
