 | Edmund Dring - 1877 - 92 pages
...onlywith the Eoman poets of the so called silver and brazen ages, but even with those of the Augustan era ; and on grounds of plain sense and universal...were studying the Greek tragic poets, he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons ; and they were the lessons, too, which required most time and. trouble... | |
 | Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro - 1878 - 352 pages
...Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the silver and brazen ages, but with even those of the Augustan era, and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic...and nativeness both of their thoughts and diction. There are few who have loved the great Greek and Roman writers more than Macaulay : it is thus he speaks... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - Classical philology - 1907 - 570 pages
...with the Roman poets of the, so-called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan era: and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic...were the lessons too, which required most time and trouble to bring uf, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him, that poetry, even that of the... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 316 pages
...of the so-called silver and brazen ages, but with even those of the Augustan era : and on the ground of plain sense and universal logic to see and assert...were studying the Greek tragic poets, he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons : and they were the lessons, too, which required most time and trouble... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 826 pages
...with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan era : and on grounds of plain sense and universal...tragic poets, he made us read Shakspeare and Milton us lessons : and they were the lessons too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 216 pages
...only with the Roman poets of the so-called silver and brazen ages, but with even those of the Augustan era ; and, on grounds of plain sense and universal...were the lessons, too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learnt from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest,... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - Authors, English - 1882 - 212 pages
...only with the Boman poets of the so-called silver and brazen ages, but with even those of the Augustan era ; and on grounds of plain sense and universal...were studying the Greek tragic poets, he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons ; and they were the lessons, too, which required most time and trouble... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...but even with those of the Augustan era, and, on grounds of plain sense and universal logie, to see the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness both of their thoughts and diction." — In his sixteenth year, Coleridge's poetical genius began to put forth, and this in such a shape... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - Poets, English - 1882 - 212 pages
...diction. At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets, he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons ; and they were the lessons, too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, BO as to escape his censure. I learnt from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1884 - 482 pages
...with the Roman poets of the so-called silver and brazen ages, but with «ven those of the Augustan era; and, on grounds of plain sense and universal...were studying the Greek Tragic Poets, he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons ; and they were the lessons, too, which required most time and trouble... | |
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Augustan era ; and, on grounds of plain sense and universal logic, to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness both of their thoughts and diction. 
