 Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakespeare'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: Five Lectures - Page 74by Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...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 - 1800 - 624 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...at present so far from it, that we are wanting in the very foundation of it, a perfect grammar. Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue...some are ungrammatical, others coarse; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure. It is true,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...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 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...what must it have been in Shakspeare's time 't " The tongue in general is so much refined since then, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are...some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure. It is true... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...at present so far from it, that we are wanting in the very foundation of it, a perfect grammar. Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue...some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure. It is true,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...what must it have been in Shakspeare's time? " The tongue in general is so much refined since then, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are...some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure. It is true... | |
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