 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - Liczba stron: 342
...conclude the sense most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together that the reader is out of breath to overtake it." Sir John Denham, also, in his Cooper's Hill, 1643, had written such verse as this : O, could I flow... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - Liczba stron: 530
...conclude the sense, most commonly, in distichs, which in the verse of those before him runs on for so many lines together, that the reader is out of breath to overtake it.' Half a century later, Voltaire paraphrased and enlarged this criticism of Dryden's in language which... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - Liczba stron: 520
...conclude the sense, most commonly, in distichs, which in the verse of those before him runs on for so many lines together, that the reader is out of breath to overtake it.' Half a century later, Voltaire paraphrased and enlarged this criticism of Dryden's in language which... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - Liczba stron: 480
...in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many * " The Verse": Preface to " Paradise Lost." lines together, that the reader is out of breath to overtake it."* All through the classical period the tradition is constant that Waller was the first modern English... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - Liczba stron: 346
...the ,ts sense most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together that the reader is out of breath to overtake it." Sir John Denham, also, in his "Cooper's Hill," 1643, had written such verse as this : Oh, could I flow... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - Liczba stron: 412
...15 the sense most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together, that the reader is out of breath to overtake it. This sweetness of Mr. Waller's lyric poesy was afterwards followed in the epic by Sir John Denham,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - Liczba stron: 760
...conclude the sense, most ^commonly in distichs, which in the verse of those before him runs on for so many lines together, that the reader is out of breath to overtake it. This sweetness of Mr. Waller's lyric poesy was afterwards followed in the epic by Sir John Denham in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - Liczba stron: 420
...15 the sense most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together, that the reader is out of breath to overtake it. This sweetness of Mr. Waller's lyric poesy was afterwards followed in the epic by Sir John Denham,... | |
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But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it; he first made writing easily an art; first showed us to conclude the sense most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines... 
