 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 страници
...the Water-poetY' rhymes. Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : delectus verborum origo est eloquent... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 страници
...the Water-poetV rhymes. Our language is noble, full, and significant; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words: delectus verborum origo e$t eloquent... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 страници
...significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently, as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : delectus verborum origo est eloquerrtice. It was the saying of Julius Caesar, one so curious in his,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 страници
...it down : for I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery,...think, " unlock a door," was a thing as vulgar as could he spoken; yet Seneca could make it sound high and lofty in his Latin. Reserate clusos regii pastes... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 страници
...refused to pay the subscription. - "V* is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : o Dtlectus verborvm origo est eloqttentia.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 страници
...defence of plays in verse. My words are these : " Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and 1 know not why he, who is a master of it, may not clothe...Seneca could make it sound high and lofty in his Latin. '' Reserate clusos regii posies laris." But he says of me, " That being filled with the precedents... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 страници
...books, refused to pay the subscription. is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : Delectus verborum origo est eloquently.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 страници
...significant; and I know not why > he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary [ things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the ' same diligence in his choice of words : Delectus verborum origo est eloquentice. It was the saying of Julius Caesar, one so curious in his,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 страници
...wrote eighty books, which not only made noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : Delectus verbo rum origo est eloquently.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 526 страници
...it down : for I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery,...Seneca could make it sound high and lofty in his Latin: ' Reserate clusos regii posies laris.' " But he says of me, " That being filled with the precedents... | |
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Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : delectus verborum origo est eloquentiae. 
