 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 pages
...write my Poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity both for the sound and number thananyotherverse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation: The learned languages... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 580 pages
...to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound...and number, than any other verse in use amongst us ; in, which I am sure I have your approbation. The learned languages have certainly a great advantage... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...write my Poem in quatrains, or stanzes of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever jadged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound...and number, than any other verse in use amongst us; in which I am sure I have your approbation. The learned languages have, certainly, a great advantage... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...invincible, which induced him thenceforward to desert the quatrain; although he has decided that stanza to be more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use among us. The turn of composition, as well as the structure of the verse, is adopted from " Gondibert."... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...invincible, which induced him thenceforward to desert the quatrain; although he has decided that stanza to be more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use among us. The turn of composition, as well as the structure of the verse, js adopted from " Gondibert."... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both foi the sound and number, than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation. The learned languages have certainly a great advantage... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 pages
...write my Poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound...and number, than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation. The learned languages have, certainly, a great advantage... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...write my poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use amonirst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation. The learned languages have certainly я great... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...write my poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound...and number, than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation. The learned languages have certainly a great advantage... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 pages
...Davenant for his model, and composed his Annus Mirabilis in quatrains, " judging them," he said, " more noble and of greater dignity, both for the sound...and number, than any other verse in use amongst us." At that time he envied the advantages which the ancients enjoyed in not being tied to the slavery of... | |
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I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use amongst us; in which I am sure I have your... 
