 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 lehte
...tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca, are in our hands, I can never see one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand them better than we do. Doubtless many things... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 lehte
...tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca, are in our hands, I can never see one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand them better than we do. Doubtless many things... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 lehte
...tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca, are in our hands, I can never see one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand them better than we do. Doubtless many things... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 lehte
...tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca, are in our hands, I can never see one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand them better than we do. Doubtless many things... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 lehte
...tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca, are in our hands, I can never see one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand them better than we do. Doubtless many things... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 lehte
...Sophocles, and Seneca, are in our hands, I can never see one of those plays which are now written, hut it increases my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as wu ought, we should understand them hetter than we do. Douhtless many things... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 208 lehte
...now written, but it increases 25, my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand...Doubtless many things appear flat to us, the wit of which 6 depended on some custom or story, which never came 1 writ, A. s so A ; B has ' them.' 3 A cm. may... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 lehte
...tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca are in our hands,§ 1 can never see one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of...had."— ED.] that to admire them as we ought, we should uuderstand them better than we do. Doubtless many things appear flat to us, the wit of which * depended... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 232 lehte
...are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients; and yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand...Doubtless many things appear flat to us, the wit of which depended on some custom or story, 5 which never came to our knowledge; or perhaps on some criticism... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 224 lehte
...of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca, are in our hands, I can never see 3° one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients; and yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought., we should understand them better than we do. ./Doubtless many things... | |
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I can never see one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand them better than we do. 
