 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...sake, that any one should take the pains to compare them together, the original being undoubted!/ . one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...poems, which either this age or nation has produced. And though I could not refuse the partiality of my friend, 1 who is pleased to commend 7 Mr. Aubrey,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...speaks thus highly of Paradise Lost, in the preface to his State of Innocence : " Undoubtedly, it is one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...Poems, which either this age or nation has produced." Again, in the year 1685, in the preface to the 2d vol. of the Miscellanies, he says, " Milton's Paradise... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...into it, at a month's warning; in which time it was wholly written, and not since revised. After this, I cannot, without injury to the deceased author of...poems, which either this age or nation has produced. And though J could not refuse the partiality of my friend, who is pleased to commend me in his verses,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...to the author. self not assured us, in the prefatory essay to his own piece, that he accounts it, " undoubtedly, one of the greatest, most noble, and...poems, which either this age or nation has produced ?" We are, therefore, to seek for the motive which could have induced him, holding this opinion, "... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...no just approbation of his genins. Thus, in the preface to " The State of Iunocence," he says — " The original being undoubtedly one of the greatest,...poems which either this age or nation has produced." This age! One of the greatest, &c. ! The age of Charles II. ! And what has become of the other great,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...to the author. self not assured us, in the prefatory essay to his own piece, that he accounts it " undoubtedly, one of the greatest, most noble, and...poems, which either this age or nation h,as produced ?" We are, therefore, to seek for the motive which could have induced him, holding this opinion, "... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...appeared almost immediately after the death of Miltop, and in this the Paradise Lost is described as " undoubtedly one " of the greatest, most noble, and...most sublime poems, which " either this age or nation hag " produced." Among other earlynotices and commendations of ParadUe Lost, Mr. Todd points out a... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...appeared almost immediately after the death of Milton, and in this the Paradise Lost is described as " undoubtedly one " of the greatest, most noble, and " most sublime poems, which " cither this age or nation has " produced." Among other early notices and commendations of Paradise... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...spirited verses of Barrow and Marvell, prefixed to the second edition of the. poem: Witness also the x celebrated hexastich of Dryden, which accompanies...supposed to be very confined till the appearance of Addispn's criticism, had begun, many years before, to spread, and to elicit the commendations of various... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...even had he himself not assured us, in the prefatory essay to his own piece, that he accounts it « undoubtedly, one of the greatest, most noble, and...poems, which either this age or nation has produced?» We are, therefore, to seek for the motive which could have induced him» holding this opinion, «to... | |
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I have borrowed will be so easily discerned from my mean productions, that I shall not need to point the reader to the places : and truly I should be sorry, for my own sake, that any one should take the pains to compare them together; the original being... 
