 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 448 pages
...admitted. I have chofen to write my poem in quatrains, or ftanzas of four in alternate rhyme, becaufe I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the found and number, than any other verfe in ufe amongft us; in which I am fure I have your approbation.... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 318 pages
...admitted. I have chofen to write my poem in quatrains, or ftanzas of four in alternate rhyme, becaufe I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the found and number, than any other verfe in ufe among!! us ; in which I am fure I have your approbation.... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1773 - 260 pages
...admitted. I have ehofen to write my poem in Quatrains, or ftanzas of four in alternate rhyme, beeaufe I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the found and number, than any other verfe in ufe amongft us ; in whieh 1 am fure 1 have your approbation.... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...Siliut Italicus, though a worse writer, may more justly be admitted. I have chosen to write my Poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme,...and of greater dignity both for the sound and number thananyotherverse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation: The learned languages... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 338 pages
...admitted. I have c ho fen to write my poem in quatrains, or ftanzas of four in alternate rhyme, becsufe I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the found an:l number, than any other verfe in ufe amongft us ; in which I am fure I have your approbation.... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 550 pages
...Italicus, though a worse writer, may more justly be admitted.— I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because...them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sqund and number, than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...admitted. I have chofen to write my poem in quatrains, or fianzas of four in alternate rhyme, becaufe I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the found and number, than any other verfe in ufe amongft us ; in which I am fure I have your approbation.... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...invincible, which induced him thenceforward to desert the quatrain; although he has decided that stanza to be more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use among us. ter of the English language, and a writer of mucli more lively imagination and expression,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...invincible, which induced him thenceforward to desert the quatrain; although he has decided that stanza to be more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use among us. tcr of the English language, and a writer of much more lively imagination and expression,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 650 pages
...I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I h;-ve ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity,...learned languages have certainly a great advantage of ns, in not being tied to the slavery of any rhyme; and were less constrained in the quantity of every... | |
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I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am 35 sure I have... 
