 | Wilhelm Zenke - 1910 - 588 pages
...pedantry and poetry; every man therefore is not fit te 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 take... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...myself; and, if the public approves of it, the bill passes. 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,... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...: every man, therefore, is not fit to intovl'te? 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... | |
 | Lauchlan MacLean Watt - 1920 - 274 pages
...the necessary limitations within which this method moves : " 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 . . . for, if too many foreign... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...myself ; and, if the public approves of it, the bill passes. 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 30 the Latin, and is to consider,... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 pages
...ornament; and that is not to be had from our old Teuton monosyllables . . . [But] 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... | |
 | Lauchlan MacLean Watt - 272 pages
...the necessary limitations within which this method moves : " Upon the whole matter a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin, and is to conaider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom . . . for, if too many foreign... | |
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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... 
