 | Thomas Warton - Criticism, Textual - 1762 - 264 pages
...verfes of his exordium. Le Donni, i Cavallier, 1'Arme, gli Amori, Le Cortegie, le' audaci Imprefe, io canto *. But it is abfurd to think of judging either...univerfally diffufed, and we require the fame order and defign which every modern performance is expected to have, in poems where they never were regarded... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 446 pages
...Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenler by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical talte is univerfally diffufed, and we require the fame order and defign which every modern performance... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...verfes of his exordium. " Le Donne, i Cavalier, 1'Arme, gli Amori, " Le Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either...writing by rule, are apt to try every compofition by thole laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical talte is univerfally... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...verfes of his exordium. " Le Donne, i Cavalier, I'Arme, gli Amori, " Le Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compolition by thofe laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 384 pages
...Cortegie, K>' audaci Impros?, io canto*. |J3ut it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts ,which they did not attend to. We who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 446 pages
...two first verses of his exordium : Bat it is ahsurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser hy precepts which they did not attend to. We, who live in the days of writing hy rule, are apt to try every composition hy those laws which we have heen taught to think the sole... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1022 pages
...the opinions upon which Thomas Wartou has explained his own depreciation of Ariosto and Spenser : " composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 496 pages
...Warton's commentary. He writes as if he felt the pressure of an unsympathetic atmosphere all about him. "We who live in the days of writing by rule are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...of the socalled "romantic movement."] ... It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. We who live...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...the socalled "romantic movement."] ... It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser. [_ by precepts which they did not attend to. We who live...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
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But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. We who live in the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of... 
