 | Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pages
...examining their St. Lewis, their Ptt- celle, or their Alarique : The Engli/h have only to bqaft of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either Genius...perfect Poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many Cenfures. For there is no Uniformity in the Defign of Spencer : He aims at the Accomplilhment of no... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire - 1735 - 512 pages
...examining their St. Lewis, their P«celle, or their Alarique: The Englifh have only to boaft of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either Genius...perfect Poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many Cenfures. For there is no Uniformity in the Detign of Sf nicer : He aims at the Accompliftmeut of no... | |
 | Theophilus Cibber, Robert Shiells - Poets, English - 1753 - 384 pages
...Juvenal, thus proceeds : " The Englifh have only to boaft of Spenfer and " Milton in heroic poetry, who neither of them " wanted either genius or learning...poets, and yet both of them are liable to •' many cenfures ; for there is no uniformity in " the defign of Spenfer; he aims at the accomF 4. '' plimmvnt... | |
 | Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - Poets, English - 1753 - 366 pages
...Juvenal, thus proceeds : " The Englifh have only to boaft of Spenfer and " Milton in heroic poeiry, who neither of them " wanted either genius or learning to have been, " perfeft poets, and yet both of them, are liable to u many cenfures ; for there is no .uniformity... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 476 pages
...examining their St. Lewis their Pucelle, or their Alariquc : the Englifli have only to boaft of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning, to have been perfed Poets ; and yet both of them are liable to many cenfures. For there is no uniformity in the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pages
...performed nothing in this kind, which is not as below thofe two Italians, and fubjeft to a thoufand more reflections, without examining their St. Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Alarique : the Englifri have only to bpaft of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning,... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 398 pages
...nothing in this kind, which is riot below thofe two Italians, and fubjcft to a thoufand more refleftions, without examining their St. Lewis, their Pucelle,...their Alarique: the Englifh have only to boaft of Spencer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning, to have been perfeft Poets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 390 pages
...examining their St. Lew:s, their. Pucclle, or their Alanque: the Englifh have only to boaft of Speafer and. Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius....learning, to have been perfect. Poets ; and yet, both.-of them are liable to manycenfures. For there is no uniformity in the defign of Spenfer : he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 384 pages
...without examining thsir St. Lewis, their Pucelle, or their Alariqne: the Englifh have only to bo,:(t of Spenfer and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning, to have been .perfeft .Poets; and yet, both of them are liable to manycenfures. For there is no uniformity in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1130 pages
...performed nothing in this kind, which is not as below thofe two Italians, and fubjeft to a thoufand •more reflections, without examining their St. Lewis, their...Pucelle, or their Alarique: the Englifh have only to 1x>aft of Spenfer and Milton, who neither of .them wanted either genius or learning, to have been perfeft... | |
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The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures. 
