 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...I ought not to have tranflated Chaucer into Engiijh^ out of a quite contrary Notion : They fuppofe there is a certain Veneration due to his old Language § and that it is little lefs than Profanation and Sacrilege to alter it. They are farther of Opinion, that fomewhat of his... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...I ought not to have tranflated Chaucer into Englifh, out of a quite contrary notion : they fuppofe there is a certain veneration due to his old language ; and that it is a little b 4 lei;. lefs than profanation and facrilege to alter it. They are farther of opinion, that... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...I ought not to have tranflated Chaucer into Englifh, out of a quite contrary notion : they fuppofe there is a certain veneration due to his old language ; and that it is a little b 4 lefs lefs than profanation and facrilege to alter it. They ' are farther of opinion, that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...judges, who think I ought not to have translated Chaucer into English, out of a quite contrary notion : they suppose, there is a certain veneration due to...than profanation and sacrilege to alter it. They are farther of opinion, that somewhat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the... | |
 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...judges, who think I ought not to have translated Chaucer into English, out of a quite contrary notion : they suppose, there is a certain veneration due to...than profanation and sacrilege to alter it. They are farther of opinion, that somewhat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...I ought not to have tranflated Chaucer into Engliih, out of a quite contrary notion : they fuppofe there is a certain veneration due to his old language; and that it is little lefs than profanation and facrilege to alter it. They are farther of opinion that fomcwliat of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...umrwtat of a nitrous taste, but mixt with a smatch of vitriolick. Grew. 3. Part, greater or less. Sommtat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. 1>: , ' :. SO'MK vv HAT. adv. In some degree. The flowre of armes, Lycymnius, that lamt•wtiat... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...not to have translated Chaucer into English, ou! of a quiie contrary notion : they suppose there ii i certain veneration due to his old language ; and that...than profanation and sacrilege to alter it. They are farther of opinion, that soiiitwhat of his good sense will suffer in this tranifusion; and much of... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...judges, who think I ought not to have translated Chaucer into English, out of a quite contrary notion : they suppose there is a certain veneration due to...than profanation and sacrilege to alter it. They are farther of opinion, that somewhat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...judges, who think I ought not to have translated Chaucer into English, out of a quite contrary notion :, they suppose there is a certain veneration due to...than profanation and sacrilege to alter it. They are farther of opinion, that somewhat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the... | |
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But there are other judges who think I ought not to have translated Chaucer into English, out of a quite contrary notion: they suppose there is a certain veneration due to his old language, and that it is little less than profanation and sacrilege to... 
