 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pages
...myself; and, if the public approves of it, the \ bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish between j pedantry and poetry : every man, therefore, is not fit to / innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in 3° the Latin, and is to consider,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1903 - 220 pages
...myself; and if the public approves of it, the bill passes. . . . Upon the whole matter a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin, and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom : after this, he ought to... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pages
...using it myself, and if the public approve of it the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry ; every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate." ' This is admirably said, and 1 A Discourse of Epick Poetry. " If the public approve." " On ne peut... | |
 | Virgil - 1909 - 454 pages
...using it myself; and, if the public approves of it, the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry: every man, therefore,...not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...using it myself; and, if the public approves of it, the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry : every man, therefore,...not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider,... | |
 | Virgil - 1909 - 492 pages
...using it myself; and, if the public approves of it, the bill passes./ But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry : every man, therefore,...not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin ; and is to consider,... | |
 | John Lowry Moore - 1909 - 48 pages
...myself; and if the public approves of it the bill passes. Sut every man cannot distinguish between pedantry and poetry; every man therefore is not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider... | |
 | Virgil - 1909 - 444 pages
...and poetry: every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom. After this, he ought to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...approves of it, the bill passes. But every man can-) not distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry: I every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...approves of it, the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry aud poetry: every nuw, 70 The mark to guide the mariners aright. To bear with this, the must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider,... | |
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But every man cannot distinguish between pedantry and poetry: every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate. Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin, and is to consider, in the next... 
