 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pages
...non licet esse tarn 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...mechanical rules of versification, wherein I have treated, wlfli'sbme exactness, of the feet, the quantities, and the pauses. The French and Italians know nothing... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 544 pages
...or two other things. But the most important sentence is, again, a ' pain of Tantalus.' ' I have long had by me the materials of an English Prosodia containing...exactness, of the feet, the quantities and the pauses.' Alas ! either these materials were never worked up (though ' I have treated ' looks positive enough)... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pages
...agnis. 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...the two first; at least their best poets have not practic'd them. As for the pauses, Malherbe first brought them into France, within this last century;... | |
 | Virgil - 1909 - 492 pages
...agnis. But, nobis non Jicet 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...the two first; at least their best poets have not practic'd them. As for the pauses, Malherbe first brought them into France, within this last century;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...nobis non licet esse tarn disertis, at least if we study to refine our numbers. I have long had by in e the materials of an English prosodia, containing all...the two first; at least their best poets have not practic'd them. As for the pauses, Malherbe first brought them into France, within this last century;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...least if we study to refine our numbers. I have long had by me the materials of an English prosndin, must needs be good, no practic'd them. As for the pauses, Malherbe first brought them into France, within this last century;... | |
 | Virgil - 1909 - 454 pages
...least if we study to refine our numbers. I have long had by me the materials of an English prosodio, containing all the mechanical rules of versification,...the two first; at least their best poets have not practic'd them. As for the pauses, Malherbe first brought them into France, within this last century;... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 604 pages
...or two other things. But the most important sentence is, again, a "pain of Tantalus." "I have long had by me the materials of an English Prosodia containing all the 1 Essays, vol. u, p. 217, ed. Ker, WP mechanical rules of versification, wherein I have treated, with... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1976 - 408 pages
...or two other things. But the most important sentence is, again, a ' pain of Tantalus.' ' I have long had by me the materials of an English Prosodia containing...exactness, of the feet, the quantities and the pauses.' Alas 1 either these materials were never worked up (though ' I have treated ' looks positive enough)... | |
 | 1923 - 468 pages
...NETHERCOT UNIVERSITY or CHICAGO NOTES ON DRYDEN'S LOST PROSODIA Dryden's statement that: "I have long had by me the materials of an English Prosodia containing all the mechanical rules . . . . "l has received insufficient attention from critics and historians. It is well known that there... | |
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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. 
