 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
....But nobis non licet esse tarn disertis ; at least, if we study to refine our numbers. I have long had by me the materials of an English Prosodia, containing all the mechanical rules of Versification, 6 .wherein I have treated with some exactness of the feet, the quantities, and the pauses. The French... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...agnis. But nobis non licet esse tam disertis ; at least, if we study to refine our numbers. I have long had by me the materials of an English Prosodia, containing all the mechanical rules of Versification,4 wherein I have treated with some exactness of the feet, the quantities, and the pauses.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...have treated with some exact' ness of the feet, the quantities, and the pauses. The French and the Italians know nothing of the two first ; at least...them into France, within this last century ; and we tee how they adorn their Alexandrians. But, as Virgil propounds a riddle which be leaves unsolved,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...1 have treated with some exactness of the feet, the quantities, and the pauses. The French and the Italians know nothing of the two first ; at least...have not practised them. As for the pauses, Malherbe firstbrought them into France, within this last century ; and we see how they adorn their Alexandrians.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...the materials of an English prosodia, containing all the mechanical rules of versification, wherein 1 have treated with some exactness of the feet, the quantities, and the pause's. The French and the Italians know nothing of the two first ; at least their best poets have... | |
 | 1813 - 432 pages
...refine our numbers. I have long had toy me the materials of an English ' Prosodia,' containing all tin- mechanical rules of versification, wherein I have...some exactness, of the feet, the quantities, and the panses. The French and Italians know nothing of the two first ; at least their best poets have not... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...agnis. But, nobis non licet esse tarn diserlis, at least if we study to refine our numbers. I have long had by me the materials of an English Prosodia, containing...quantities, and the pauses. The French and Italians know-nothing of the two first ; at least their best poets have not practised them. As for the pauses,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...agnis. But, nobis non licet essc tam discrtis, at least if v?e stndy to refine our numbers. I have long had by me the materials of an English ' Prosodia,'...feet, the quantities, and the pauses. The French and Italiaus know nothing of the two first; at least their best poets have not practised them. As for the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...least J we study to refine our numhers. I have long had hy me the materials of an English Prowlia, containing all the mechanical rules of versification,...Italians know nothing of the two first ; at least their hest poets have not practised them. As for the pauses, Malherhe first hrought them into France within... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 pages
...nobis non licet esse tam disertis, at least if we study to refine our numbers. I have long had by me 15 the materials of an English Prosodia, containing all...first ; at least their best poets have not practised 20 them. As for the pauses, Malherbe first brought them into France within this last century; and we... | |
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I have long had by me the materials of an English prosodia, containing all the mechanical rules of versification, wherein I have treated with some exactness of the feet, the quantities, and the pauses. 
