 ... they who think too well of their own performances, are apt to boast in their prefaces how little time their works have cost them ; and what other business of more importance interfered ; but the reader will be as apt to ask the question, why they...  Dramatic Essays - Page 274by John Dryden - 1921 - 299 lehteFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 lehte
...the reader will be as apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion...touch the same features over again, and change the dead colouring of the whole. In general I will only say, that I have written nothing which savours... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 lehte
...the reader will be as apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion...touch the same features over again, and change the dead colouring of the whole. In general I will only say, that I have written nothing which savours... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 lehte
...to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and w hy they had so despicable an opinion of their judges,...touch the same features over again, and change the dead colouring of the whole. In general I will only say, that I have written nothing which savours... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 lehte
...the reader will be as apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion...in the second part, as at a second sitting, though 1 alter not the draught, I must touch the same feature« over again, and change the dead colouring... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 lehte
...the reader will be a; apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion...in the second part, as at a second sitting, though 1 alter not the draught, I must touch the same features over again, and change the dead colouring of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 lehte
...the reader will be as apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion...indigested stuff upon them, as if they deserved no better Î With this account of my present undertaking, I conclude the first part of this discourse : in the... | |
 | 1820 - 774 lehte
...the reader will be apt to ask the question, Why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? And why they had so despicable an opinion...indigested stuff upon them, as if they deserved no better F" But topics of more importance tliun the -space of time occupied in the production of this work,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 lehte
...the reader will be as apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion...touch the same features over again, and change the dead colouring of the whole. In general I will only say, that I have written nothing which savours... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 lehte
...the reader will be apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion of their judges, as to thrust their undigested stuff upon them, as if they deserved no better. Dryden. P Cheerfulness is always to be supported... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 lehte
...the reader will be as apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect? and why they had so despicable an opinion...indigested stuff upon them, as if they deserved no better. — th-yden. MCCLVII. MCCLVIII. 1 hate ingratitude more in a man, Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,... | |
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