 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman,...noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of the Epique kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the /Eneis : the ftory is more pleafing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman,...diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various ; »nd the difpofition full as artful; .only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up, feven... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman,...the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Hias or the ^Eneis : the ftory is more pleafing than either of them, the manners as perfeft, the diction... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman,...far above all his other ftories, the noble poem of Paiamon and Arcite, which is of the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the ^55neis... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...memory had not failed me.. Let the reader weigh them both; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace, I prefer in. our countryman,...more pleafing than either of them,. the manners as perfect, the diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various; and the difpofition full as artful;... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial ta Chincer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman, far above all bit other {lories, the noble poem of Pahnioo ud Arcite, which is of the epic kind, aod p<rha¡4 not... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman,...far above all his other ftories, the noble poem of Pahmon and Arcite, which is of the epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the JEneit... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...difcourfes, if memory had not failed me. Let the reader we them both ; and if he thicks me partial to Ch cer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman, far above all other ftories, the noble poem of Palamon Arute, which is of the epic kind, and perl not much inferior... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...memory had not failed me. Let the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, it is in him to right Boccace. I prefer in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of PALAMON AND ARCITE, which is of the epick kind, and perhaps not much inferior... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...memory had not failed me* Let the reader weigh them both ; and if he thinks me partial to Chaucer, tongues difpenfe, • > And crown'd thy gift with eloquence ! J Refine and purge o (lories, the noble poem of 1'alamon and Arcite, which is of the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior... | |
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tis in him to right Boccace. I prefer, in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of the epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias, or the JEneis. 
