 | Virgil - 1803 - 408 pages
...in our dwarfheroes of the theatre. We can believe they routed armies, in Homer or in Virgil; but ne Hercules contra duos in the drama. I forbear to instance...needed not that I should open it. Your Essay of Poetry, which was published without a name, and of which I was not honoured with the confidence, I read over... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...the rights of my two masters against their rivals of the scene, even while I wrote tragedies mvse'lf, and had no thoughts of this present undertaking. I...lord, instructed in the cause, and needed not that I »Wld open it. Your Essay of Poetry, which was published without a name, and of which I was not honoured... | |
 | Virgil - 1806 - 414 pages
...tragedies myself, and had no thoughts of this present undertaking. I submit my opinion to your judgment, who are better qualified than any man I know, to decide...needed not that I should open it. Your Essay of Poetry, which was published without a name, and of which I was not honoured with the confidence, I read over... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...maintained the rights of my two masters against their rivals of the scene, * even while I wrote tra gedies myself, and had no thoughts of this present undertaking....drew the public attention by much sound criticism, expressed in pointed language ; although the published without a name, and of which I was not honoured... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...present undertaking. I submit my opinion to your judgement, who are better qualified than any man 1 know, to decide this controversy. You come, my lord,...drew the public attention by much sound criticism, expressed in pointed language ; although the published without a name, and of which I was not honoured... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...tragedies myself, and had no thoughts of this present undertaking. I submit my opinion to your judgment, who are better qualified than any man I know to decide...needed not that I should open it. Your essay of poetry, which was published without a name, and of which I was not honoured with the confidence, I read over... | |
 | 1813 - 432 pages
...tragedies myself, and had no thoughts of this present undertaking. I submit my opinion to your judgment, who are better qualified than any man I know to decide...controversy. You come, my lord, instructed in the canse, and needed not that I should open it. Your ' Essay of Poetry 4,' which was published without... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...our dwarf-heroes of the theatre. We can believe they routed armies, in Homer or in Virgil ; but ne Hercules contra duos in the drama. I forbear to instance...Shakespeare and Jonson against the French dramatists. f It appeared first in 1682, and drew the public attention by much sound criticism, expressed in pointed... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...tragedies myself, and had no thoughts of this present undertaking. I submit my opinion to your judgment, who are better qualified than any man I know to decide...not that I should open it. Your ' Essay of Poetry 4 ,' which was published without a name, and of which I was not honoured with the confidence, I read... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...tragedies mysclf, and had no thoughts of this present undertaking. I submit my opinion to your judgment, who are better qualified than any man I know to decide this controversy. You come, my lord, instrncted in the cause, and needed not that I should open it. Your ' Essay of Poetry 4 ,' which was... | |
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I submit my opinion to your judgment, who are better qualified than any man I know to decide this controversy. You come, my lord, instructed in the cause, and needed not that I should open it. Your "Essay of Poetry... 
