 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 lehte
...the writers of the last age, (in which I comprehend Shakspeare, Fletcher, and Jonson,) is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares...perfection ; that from Jonson's time to ours it has been in a continual declination ; like that of the Romans from the age of Virgil to Statius, and so downward... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 lehte
...the writers of the " last age, (in which 1 comprehend Shakspcare, Fletcher, and Jonson,) is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares...language, or an alteration for the better, will not eo easily be granted. For many are of a contrary opinion, that the English tongue was then in the height... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 lehte
...the writers of the last age, (in which I comprehend Shakspeare, Fletcher, and Jonson,) is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares their language with what is now writjpn, will see it almost in every line. But, that this is an improvement of the language, or an... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 lehte
...the writers of the last age (in which I comprehend Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson), is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares...or an alteration for the better, will not so easily he granted. For many are of a contrary opinion, that the English tongue was then in the height of its... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 lehte
...Shakspeare, Fletcher, and Jonson, is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and ccnipares their language with what is now written, will see...perfection ; that from Jonson's time to ours it has been in a continual declination ; like that of the Romans from the age of Virgil to Statius, and so downward... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1874 - 402 lehte
...reads thofe excellent poets, and compares their language with what is now written, will fee it almofl in every line; but that this is an improvement of...language, or an alteration for the better, will not fo eafily be granted. * * * * One teflimony of this is undeniable, that we are the firfl who have obferved... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1874 - 398 lehte
...age (in which I comprehend Shakefpeare, Fletcher, and Jonfon,) is manifeft Any man who reads thofe excellent poets, and compares their language with what is now written, will fee it almofl in every line ; but that this is an improvement of the language, or an alteration for... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 lehte
...the writers of the last age (in which I comprehend Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson), is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares...perfection ; that from Jonson's time to ours it has been in a continual declination, like that of the Romans from the age of Virgil to Statius, and so downward... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 lehte
...the writers of the last age (in which I comprehend Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson), is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares...perfection ; that from Jonson's time to ours it has been in a continual declination, like that of the Romans from the age of Virgil to Statius, and so downward... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 lehte
...the writers of the last age (in which I comprehend Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson), is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares...that the English tongue was then in the height of imperfection ; that from Jonson's time to ours it has been in a continual declination, like that of... | |
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To begin with Language. That an alteration is lately made in ours, or since the writers of the last age (in which I comprehend Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson), is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares their language with what... 
