 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 páginas
...harmoniously in prose, do in truth often write mere blank verse. " I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose,...read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." To Tillotson, however, he is, in many respects, far superior ; in fact, there is little similarity... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 páginas
...harmoniously in prose, do, in truth, often write mere blank verse. I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose,...His versification and his numbers he could learn of no body ; for he first possessed those talents in perfection in our tongue. And they, who have best,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1811 - 490 páginas
...deviating into the language or diction of poetry,— —I have heard. him frequently »wn with pleasute, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was...read the writings of the great archbishop Tillotson. Hi« versification and his numbers h* could learn of nobody ; for he first possessed those talents... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 560 páginas
...it, without deviating into the language or diction of poetry. I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose,...to his having often read the writings of the great archhishop Tillotson. His versification and his numbers he could learn of nobody ; for he first possessed... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 páginas
...without deviating into the language or the diction of poetry. I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that ' if he had any talent for English...Archbishop Tillotson.' His versification, and his numbers,he could learn of nobody; for he first possessed those talents in perfection in our tongue.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 páginas
...harmoniously in prose, do, in truth, often write mere blank verse. I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose,...possessed those talents in perfection in our tongue. And they, who have best succeeded in them since his time, have been indebted to his example ; and the... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - 1820 - 458 páginas
...fall without deviating into the language or diction of poetry. I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose,...having often read the writings of the great archbishop Tilinteen. His versification and Ms numbers he could leam of nobody ; for he first possessed those... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 páginas
...poetical writers, who meaning to write harmoniously in prose, do in truth often write mere blank verse. His versification and his numbers he could learn of...possessed those talents in perfection in our tongue, and they who have best succeeded in them, since his time, have been indebted to his example ; and the... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - 1833 - 466 páginas
...Paris, in 1649. poetry. I have heard him frequently own witli EtlCHAL Aimes, a dissenting minister, of pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his bavin« often read the writings of the great archbishop Tillotson. His versification and hie numbers... | |
 | Association réformiste - 1835 - 478 páginas
...much and so various matter, and in so various manners so well. I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing lo his often having read the writings of the great Abp. Tillotson. His versification and his numbers... | |
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I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson. 
