 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...more justice, than if English poesy should be made ridiculous for the sake of the Water-poetV rhymes. Our language is noble, full, and significant; and...may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words: delectus verborum origo e$t eloquent... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...quotation of Seneca, in my defence of plays in verse. My words are these : " Our language is noble, tiill, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it, may riot clothe ordinary things in it as decently as in the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 pages
...are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery, I will force my genius to obey it, though...full, and significant ; and I know not why he, who is a master of it, may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as in the Latin, if he use the same... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...fourth class ot subscribers, who, having received his «MT books, refused to pay the subscription. - "V* is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why...may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : o Dtlectus verborvm origo est eloqttentia.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 pages
...words are these : " Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and 1 know not why he, who is a master of it, may not clothe ordinary things in it...Seneca could make it sound high and lofty in his Latin. '' Reserate clusos regii posies laris." But he says of me, " That being filled with the precedents... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...for a fourth class of subscribers, who, having received his books, refused to pay the subscription. is noble, full, and significant; and I know not why...not clothe ordinary [ things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the ' same diligence in his choice of words : Delectus verborum origo est eloquentice.... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...according to Wood, a man who, having a prodigious genie to poetry, wrote eighty books, which not only made noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why...may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : Delectus verbo rum origo est eloquently.... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...,t nan who, havtn* a pro,ilfinua rente to poetry, wrote eighty hooks, wUich nut only msde 850 nohle, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not cluthe ordinary things ,n it as decently as the Latin, if he use the 9ame dtligence in his choice of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 526 pages
...are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery, I will force my genius to obey it, though...full, and significant; and I know not why he, who is a master of it, may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as in the Latin, if he use the same... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 208 pages
...but before I quit that argument, which was the cause of this digression, I cannot but take notice 30 how I am corrected for my quotation of Seneca, in...and I know not why he who is master of it, may not cloath ordinary things in it as decently as the Latine, if he use the same diligence in his choice... | |
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Our language is noble, full, and significant, and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words. 
