| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 pages
...of words : for it feldom happens but a monofyllable line turns verfe to profe, and even that profc is rugged and unharmonious. Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monofyjlables in file, without one diflyllable betwixt them. The way I have taken is not fo ftrait... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 366 pages
...omament of words : for it feldom happens but a monofyllable line tums verfe to profe, and even that profe is rugged and unharmonious. Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monofyllables in file, without one diflyllable betwixt them. The way I have taken is not fo ftrait... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...of words : for it feldom happens, but a roonofyllable line turns verfe to profe, and even that profe is rugged and unharmonious. Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monoiVlables in file, without one diflyllable betwixt them. The way I have taken is not fo ftnut as... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...places of this work, but I never did it out of choice : I was either in haste, or Virgil gave me no occasion for the ornament of words ; for it seldom...line turns verse to prose, and even that prose is nigged and unharmonious. Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file,... | |
| Virgil - 1803 - 408 pages
...of this work : but I never did it out of choice : I was either in haste, or Virgil voi. ii. H me no occasion for the ornament of words ; for it seldom...verse to prose ; and even that prose is rugged and unhannonious. Philarchus, I reinember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file, without... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...places of this work : but I never did it out of choice; I was either in haste, or Virgil gave me no occasion for the ornament of words; for it seldom...rugged and unharmonious. Philarchus, I remember, taxes lialzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file, without one dissyllable betwixt them. The way I have... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pages
...places of this work : but I never did it out of choice ; I was either in haste, or Virgil gave me no occasion for the ornament of words ; for it seldom...verse to prose ; and even that prose is rugged and unbarmonious. Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file, without... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...verse to prose, and even that pross is nigged and mharmonious. Philarchus, I remember, taxes Ealzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file, without...metaphrase, nor so loose as paraphrase : some things too t have oaiitted, and sometimes have added of my own ; yet the ominions, I hope, are but of circumstances,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...places of this work, but I never did it out of choice : I was either 'a haste, or Virgil gave mfe no occasion for the ornament of words: for it seldom happens but a monosyllabic line turns verse to prote, and "even that prc*o is rugged and miharmonious. Philarchus,... | |
| 1813 - 432 pages
...places of this work ; but I never did it out of choice : I was either in haste, or Virgil gave me no occasion for the ornament of words ; for it seldom happens but a monosyllable hue turns verse to prose : and even that prose is rugged and unliarmoliinus. Pbilarchus, I remember,... | |
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