 | John Dryden - Drama - 1928 - 54 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there 25 were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...pleasing, tho' not perfect. 'T is true, I cannot go so far as he who publish'd the last edition of him;1' for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine: but this opinion is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1898 - 488 pages
...cannot go so far, äs he, who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe, that the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but ninc; but this opinion is not woith confuting; 'tis so gross... | |
 | Dennis Freeborn - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 502 pages
...perfect. and he criticised the editor of an earlier late- 16th century printed edition of Chaucer, ... for he would make us believe the Fault is in our Ears, and that there were really Ten Syllables in a Verse where we find but Nine: But this Opinion is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - Authors and readers - 2002 - 312 pages
...Chaucer's meter and his incomplete pentameters, at the expense of Thomas Speght, "he who publish'd the last Edition of him; for he would make us believe the Fault is in our Ears, and that there were really Ten Syllables in a Verse where we find but Nine" (1453, lines 338-40l. Dryden thus adopts and elaborates... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...pleasing, though not perfect. 'IV, true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him;0 for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross... | |
 | 62 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who publish'd the last Edition of him ; for he would make us believe the...Fault is in our Ears, and that there were really Ten Syllables in a Verse where we find but Nine : But this Opinion is not worth confuting ; 'tis so gross... | |
 | John Dryden - Poetry - 2002 - 612 pages
...natural and pleasing, 385 though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him, for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting; 'tis so gross... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 692 pages
...natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who puhlish'd the last Edition of him ; for he would make us believe the...Fault is in our Ears, and that there were really Ten Syllables in a Verse where we find but Nine : But this Opinion is not worth confuting ; 'tis so gross... | |
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Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine... 
