 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers ; even Crites himself did not much oppose it : and every one was willing to...clearly shewn, (Grammar, p. 31,) ought to have written " Eugemvsis opinion." thoughts into easy and significant words, — to retrench the superfluities of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers ; even Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge...writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers ; even Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge...writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers; even Crites himself did not much oppose it : and every one was willing to...writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and signifi• If Crites be really Sir Robert Howard, as there Is every reason to... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...sweeiness of Engl,sh verse was never understood or practised hy our fathers; even Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved, hy the happiness of somo writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...sweeiness of English verse was never understood or practised hy our fathers ; even Crites himself did not much oppose it : and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved, hy the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1868 - 690 pages
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers," and that " our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1898 - 396 pages
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers," and that " our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers," and that " our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, 1 "The favour... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Authors - 1887 - 408 pages
...sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers," and that "our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living, who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make... | |
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Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved, by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities... 
