Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others... English Past and Present - Página 67de Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 213 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 páginas
...at present so far from it, that we are wanting in the very foundation of it, a perfect grammar.8 Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible : and of... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 páginas
...at present so far from it, that we are wanting in the very foundation of it, a perfect grammar.8 Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible : and of... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 páginas
...must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce P~, intelligible: and of those which we understand, '£; some are ungrammatical, others coarse; and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 páginas
...procure at any price, was then the fur* " The tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible." Preface to Dryden's Troilus and Cressida. The various changes made by Dryden in particular passages... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 páginas
...procure at any price, was then the fur* " The tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible." Preface to Dryden's Troilus and Cressida. The various changes made by Dryden in particular passages... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 páginas
...which are necessary to our author's * " The tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible." Preface to Dryden's Troilus and Cressida. The various changes made by Dryden in particular passages... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 278 páginas
...obsolete language, he is still intelligible."* Nay, hear what his judgment is of Shakespeare himself, so far as language is concerned : " It must be allowed...some are ungrammatical, others coarse; and his whole Preface to Juvenal. style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 272 páginas
...obsolete language, he is still intelligible."* Nay, hear what his judgment is of Shakespeare himself, so far as language is concerned : " It must be allowed...intelligible. And of those which we understand, some < ungrammatical, others coarse; and his whole Preface to Juvenal. II.] NUGGET, INGOT. 75 style is so... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 páginas
...Shakespeare himself, so far as language is concerned : " It must be allowed to * Preface to Juvenal. the present age that the tongue in general is so much...intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are uugrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that... | |
| 1855 - 1016 páginas
...opinion quotes the following passage from that great author's preface to one of Shakspere's Plays : — " It must be allowed to the present age that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shaksperc's time that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible. And of those... | |
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