 May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so much as to be a Christian, or a moral man), may I have leave, I say...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 6351845Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 lehte
...tolerable to do myself the justice, (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so...the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and above allj the Wife of Bath,5 in the Proidea of the extent and difficulty of the whole... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 lehte
...tolerable to do myself the justice, (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so...the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and above all, the Wife of Bath,5 in the Proidea of the extent and difficulty of the whole... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 lehte
...tolerable to do myself the justice, (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so...have leave, I say, to inform my reader, that I have confmed my choice to such Tales of Chaucer, as savour nothing of immodesty. If I had desired more to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 lehte
...have leave to do myself the justice, since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so...Christian, or a moral man, may I have leave, I say," &c. See vol. iii. p. 630. Ward's account of this transaction is as follows : " Notwithstanding his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 lehte
...have leave to do myself the justice, since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so...Christian, or a moral man, may I have leave, I say," &c. See vol. iii. p. 630. Ward's account of this transaction is as follows : " Notwithstanding his... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 lehte
...have leave to do myself the justice, since my enemies will do me none, and arc so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so...Christian, or a moral man, may I have leave, I say," &c. See vol. iii. p. 630. Ward's account of this transaction is as follows: " Notwithstanding his merits... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 lehte
...(sine: my enemies will do me none, and are so far frcn granting me to be a good poet, that they will cni allow me so much as to be a Christian, or a moral...inform my reader, that I have confined my choice to nek tales of Chaucer as savour nothing of immodcsiv. If I had desired more to please than to irutrua... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 lehte
...leave to do myself the justice, (since my enemies will do me none, f and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so much as * Gat-toothed, according to Chaucer ; meaning nothing more than goat-toothed, which, applied to such... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 lehte
...leave to do myself the justice, (since my enemies will do me none, f and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so much as * Gat-toothed, according to Chaucer ; meaning nothing more than goat-toothed, which, applied to such... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 lehte
...leave to do myself the justice '(since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so...instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchants, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured... | |
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