 | John Dryden - 1713 - 614 lapas
...Manners as perfect, the Di&ion as poetical, the Learning as deep and various j and the Difpofition full as artful : only it includes a greater length of Time, as taking up feven Years at leaft-, but Arijlotle has left undecided the Duration of the Action j which yet is eafijy... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 526 lapas
...Epique kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the /Eneis : the ftory is more pleafing than either of them, the manners as perfect, the diction...poetical, the learning as deep and various ; and the difpofition full as artful ; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up feven years at... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 lapas
...to the Ilias or the JEneis : the ftory is more pleafing than either of them, the manners as perfeft, the diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various ; and the difpofition full as artful ; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up feven years at... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 lapas
...to the Ilias or the JEneis : the ftory is more pleafing than either of them, the manners as perfeft, the diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various ; and the difpofition full as artful ; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up feven years at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 352 lapas
...the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the ^55neis : the ftory is more pleafing than either of them, the manners as perfect, the diction...poetical, the learning as deep and various; and the difpofition full as artful; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up feven years at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 lapas
...manners as perfeft, the diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various ; »nd the difpofition full as artful; .only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up, feven .years at leaft ; but Ariftotle has )eft undecided the duration of the acY:on ; which yet is... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 lapas
...the Epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the jEneis: the ftory is more pleafing than either of them,. the manners as perfect, the...poetical, the learning as deep and various; and the difpofition full as artful; only it includes a greater length of time^ as taking up feven years at... | |
 | 1793 - 806 lapas
...manners as perfect, the diâion ai poetical, the learning as deep and various; and the difpufitico full as artful ; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up feven years at lead ; but An{lotie has left undecided the duration of the ic* tion, which yet is cafily... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 lapas
...to the Ilias or the JEneit : the itory is more pleating than either of them, the manners as perfcA, the diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various; and the difpofitioo full as artful ; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up feven years at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 lapas
...to the Ilias or the ^Enels : the ftory is more pleafing than either of them, the manners as perfe&j the diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various ; and the difpofition full as artful ; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up feven years at... | |
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tis in him to right Boccace. I prefer, in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of the epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias, or the jEneis. The story is more pleasing than either... 
