 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1778 - 570 pages
...difputant. On the whole I am of opinion, that Lydgate made confiderable additions to thofe amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way : and that he is the firft of our writers whofe ftyle is cloathed with that perfpicuity, in which the Englifh phrafeology... | |
 | Art - 1813 - 682 pages
...additions to di'iH1 amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occlcvc ltd the way; ami is the first of our writers, whose style is clothed with that perspicuity in which the English phrascolcgy appears at this day to an Knglisll nailer. Hi; muse was of univeiSiil acce:u, and lie «as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 688 pages
...difputant. On the whole I am of opinion, that Lydgate made considerable additions to thofe amplifications of our language, . in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way: and that he is the firfl of our writers whofe ftyle is cloathed with that perfpicuity, in which the Engltih phrafeology... | |
 | History - 1800 - 702 pages
...difputant. On the wjiole I am of opinion, that Lydgate made coniiderable additions to thofe amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way: and that he is the firft of our writers whofe ftyle is cloathed with that perfpicuity, in which the Englifh phrafeology... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1808 - 918 pages
...apparently the portion of a poem ascribed to Lydgate. As this author has been noticed by Warton for "the first of our writers whose Style is clothed with...phraseology appears at this day to an English, reader;"* the following copy of verses, with the respective minuteness of the collation, may therefore be considered... | |
 | W. Gardiner - 1808 - 786 pages
...elegancies of compositon. Mr. Warton says, " he made considerable additions to those amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve,...that he is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 464 pages
...Lydgate made considerable additions to those " amplifications of our language, in which Chau" cer, Gower, and Occleve, led the way: and " that he is...at this day to an " English reader. " To enumerate Lydgatc's pieces would be to " write the catalogue of a little library. No poet " seems to have possessed... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 540 pages
...amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccieve, led the way ; and that be u the first of our writers whose style is clothed with...phraseology appears at this day to an English reader. Lydgate's pieces are very numerous. Ritson has given a list of two hundred and fifty-one, some of which... | |
 | Longman (Firm), Thomas Park - English poetry - 1815 - 481 pages
...disputant. On the whole I am of opinion, that Lydgate made considerable additions to those amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve...that he is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English... | |
 | Acton Frederick Griffiths - 1815 - 628 pages
...disputant. On the whole I am of opinion, that Lydgate made considerable additions to those amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve...that he is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English... | |
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I am of opinion, that Lydgate made considerable additions to those amplifications of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way : and that he is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English... 
