 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - Liczba stron: 964
...deserves to be more attentively considered. [210 To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser expected. And as to the young laborers, they are now...away for want of nourishment, to a degree that if at Jonson boldly pronounces [220 him to have written no language. His stanza is at once difficult and... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - Liczba stron: 398
...be more attentively considered," and he goes on " To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one...far from extending the same respect to his diction and stanza." And elsewhere in his life of West he complains that, " An imitation of Spenser is nothing... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - Liczba stron: 394
...be more attentively considered," and he goes on " To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one...instruction. .But I am very far from extending the 5ame respect to his diction and stanza." And elsewhere in his life of West he complains that, " An... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - Liczba stron: 492
...therefore deserves to be more attentively considered. " To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one...peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Jonson boldly pronounces him to have written no language. His stanza is at once difficult and unpleasing... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - Liczba stron: 268
...necessary to take up the cudgels in defence of his own style. Says the doctor: "His (viz. Spenser's) style was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so...peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use that Jonson (ie Ben) boldly pronounces him to have written no language" 1). A comparison between the three... | |
 | George Simpson Marr - 1924 - Liczba stron: 276
...and in the construction of his verse paragraph. " To imitate the~\ fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one...instruction. But I am very far from extending the samey respect to his diction in his stanza." His style was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - Liczba stron: 296
...his " studied barbarity " (Rambler, No. 37). " His style was in his own time allowed to be vitious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common-sense, that Jonson boldly pronounces him to have written no language" (Rambler, No. 121). 1... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - Liczba stron: 400
...therefore deserves to be more attentively considered. To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one...the same respect to his diction or his stanza. His stile was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase,... | |
 | David Hill Radcliffe - 1996 - Liczba stron: 262
...Collection of Poems, by Several Hands (1748) he snarled, "to imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one...peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that [Ben] Johnson boldly pronounces him 'to have written no language.' His stanza is at once difficult... | |
 | Nick Groom - 1999 - Liczba stron: 310
...Johnson had warned of the dangers of this brand of Spenserian imitation in the Rambler: 'His stile was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with peculiarities and of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Johnson [Ben Jonson] boldly pronounces... | |
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To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction. But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his stanza. His style was in his own... 
