 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...mismeasured, may appeare in the end of his fift booke of " Troylus and Creseide," where he writeth thus: the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find hut nine: but this opinion is not worth confuting; it is so gross... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...mismeasured, may appeare in the end ot his titt booke of " Troylus and Creseide," where he writeth thus: the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find hut nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting; it is so gross... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe the...fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine : but this opinion is not. worth confuting; it is so gross... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe the...fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine: but this opinion is not worth confuting; it is so gross... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. His true, I cannot go so far r he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and í it ib«re were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine : but this opinion is not... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...mismeasured, may appeare in the end of his fifth booke of ' Troylus and Creseide/ where he writeth thus : the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting; it is so gross... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him, for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there are really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...though not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him, for be would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there are really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 pages
...contemporaries : — 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he, who published the last edition of him [Mr. Speght] ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting ; 'tis so gross... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 pages
...contemporaries : — 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he, who published the last edition of him [Mr. Speght] ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting ; 'tis so gross... | |
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Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine... 
