 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 oldal
...commends—it was auribus istius temporis accommodata. They who lived with him, and sometime after, thought it musical; and it con-tinues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of the Scotch tune in it, which is... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 oldal
...commends — it was auribus isflux temporis accommodata. They who lived with him, and sometime after, thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of the Scotch tune in it, which is... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 oldal
...Tacitus commends, it was aurihus isiltis temporis accommodata : they who lived with him, and some timo after him, thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numhers of Litigate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in... | |
 | Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1838 - 430 oldal
...is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends — it was ' auribus istius temporis accomodata.' They who lived with him, and some time after him,...even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries ; — there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which... | |
 | William Dauney, Finlay Dun - 1838 - 436 oldal
...like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends — it was ' aur ibus istius temporis accomodata.' They who lived with him, and some time after him,...even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries ; — there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1841 - 482 oldal
...confess," says Dryden in the Preface to his Fables, " is not harmonious to us. They who lired icith him, and some time after him, thought it musical;...even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1841 - 486 oldal
...Preface to his Fables, " is not harmonious to us. They who /iixd with him, and SOHM time after hirn, thought it musical ; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1841 - 506 oldal
...to hia Fables, " is not harmonious to us. They who lired with him, and some time after him, thoiiyht it musical ; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1845 - 348 oldal
...quote Dryden, Pref. to his Fables. " The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; — They who lived with him, and some time after him,...the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : — 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he, who published the last edition of him [Mr. Speght] ; for... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 oldal
...it is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata. They who lived with him, and some time after him,...compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his cotemporaries:— there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing,... | |
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The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata : they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical ; and it continues so even... 
