| Edward Phillips - 1800 - 440 頁
...Cortegie, le' audaci Imprele, io canto.* " But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compofition by thofe laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 頁
...Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compofition by thole laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 頁
...Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compolition by thofe laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 頁
...two first verses of his exordium : Bat it is ahsurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser hy precepts which they did not attend to. We, who live in the days of writing hy rule, are apt to try every composition hy those laws which we have heen taught to think the sole... | |
| David Irving - 1841 - 448 頁
...commodities here can make the only amends/or.— Temple on the Advancement of Trade. But it is ahurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to.— Warton's Observation* on Spenser. * Mason's Essay on the Power and Harmony of Prosaic Numbers, p. 20.... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 頁
...difficulties that can be raised, and which are not too captious, or too trivial, to take notice of." "It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or...Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to." ON ANTITHESIS. A period, when well constructed, has more strength than a loose sentence, because the... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 頁
...has talents which are rapidly unfolding into life and vigor, and indomitable energies (§ S72). 17. It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. 18. Force was resisted by force, valor opposed by valor, and art encountered or eluded by similar address... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1858 - 216 頁
...out their spirits. The faith he professed, and which he became an apostle of, was not his invention. But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto...Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. Shall the narrow-minded children of earth dare to treat as visionary, objects which they have never... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 頁
...has talents which are rapidly unfolding into life and vigor, and indomitable energies (§ 372), 17. It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. 18. Force was resisted by force, valor opposed by valor, and art encountered or eluded by similar address... | |
| Henry Noble Day - 1866 - 342 頁
...little how unreasonable these hopes are, and how absurd the encouragement is which men take from them. But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser bv precepts which they did nut attend to. — Watson, There need no more than to make such a registry... | |
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