 | Virgil - 1721 - 456 oldal
...BritiJb'-MoUQ. The French have fet up Purity , for the Standard of their Language ; and a > Mafculine Vigour is that of ours. Like their Tongue is the Genius of their Poets, light and trifling in Comparifon of the Englijh ; more proper for Sonnets, Madrigals, and Elegies, than Heroick Poetry. The turn on Thoughts... | |
 | Voltaire - 1732 - 352 oldal
...Tongue is ' *^? , ** • >,..,*-.*' ^^ tfa the Genius of their Poets, light and trifling tn Companfon of the Englifh, more proper for Sonnet^ Madrigals and Elegies, than Heroick Poetry. And in another Place of his Dedication of the ALneis, I faid before, and I repeat it ) that the affected Purity of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 oldal
...motto. The French have fet up purity "for the ftandard of their language ; and a mafculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their...trifling in comparifon oF the Englifh ; more .proper for fbnnets, madrigals, and elegies, than heroic poetry. The turn-on thoughts and words is their chief... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 408 oldal
...motto. The' French liave fet ^ip purity for the itandard of their language ; arid a maiculine vigour-is that of ours. Like "their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and tri• fling in comparilbn of the Englifh ; more proper for :fonnets, -madrigals, -and elegies, than... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 424 oldal
...'ftandard of their language ; and a ,mafculine vigour is that of ours. Like .their tongue is the genrus of their poets, light and trifling in comparifon of the Englifh ; more proper for :fonnets, madrigals, and .elegies, than heroic poetry. The turn on thoughts and words is their chief... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 366 oldal
...motto. The French have fet up purity for the ftandard of their language; and a mafculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their...trifling in comparifon of the Englifh; more proper for fonnets, madrigals, and elegies, than heroic poetry. The turn on thoughts and words is their chief... | |
 | 1792 - 918 oldal
...motto. The French have fet up purity for the flandard of their language; and a inafculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and trifling in companion of the English ; more proper for funnels, madrigals, and elegies, than heroic poetry. The... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 oldal
...motto. The French have fct up pulity for the ftandard of their language; and a mafculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and trifling in comparison of the Englifli ; more proper for fonncts, madrigals, and elegies, than heroic poetry. The... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 oldal
...motto. The French have fet up purity for the ftandard of their language ; and a mafculinc vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and liifn'ng in comparil'nn of tl.e Engiifu ; more proper for fonnct*, uiadri^ar', ar.il ele^.^s, than... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 oldal
...motto. The French have set up purity for the standard of their language ; and a masculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and trifling in comparison of the English ; more proper for sonnets, madrigals, and elegies, than heroick poetry. The... | |
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The French have set up purity for the standard of their language; and a masculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and trifling in comparison of the English; more proper for sonnets, madrigals, and elegies... 
