 | Voltaire - 1909 - 346 Seiten
...Mr. Waller' s Poems, 169o: « He was indeed the parent of English verse, and the first that shew'd us our tongue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language...whole Academy . . . The tongue came into his hands likea rough diamond. Hepolish'd it first. » (Ed. Fenton . ) — Cette réputation de Waller était... | |
 | Gustav Körting - 1910 - 880 Seiten
...erschien in zwei Teilen 1664, bezw. 1690 (der Herausgeber des 2. Teiles sagt in der Vorrede von W. „Our language owes more to him, than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy", eine arge Lüge!). — Poems, ed. by THORN DBURY, Lond. 1893. — GOSSE hat in seinem Buche „From... | |
 | Wilhelm Zenke - 1910 - 588 Seiten
...editor of the second part of the first edition of WALLER'S Poems (1690) declares of the latter, "onr language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu and the whole Academy!"1) Nearer the mark is LANGBAINE'S note on Lyly that he was "one of the first writers, that... | |
 | Voltaire - 1924 - 342 Seiten
...Poems, 1690 : « He was indeed thé parent of English verse, and thé first that shew'd us our longue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language owes more to him than thé French does to Cardinal Richelieu and thé whole Academy... The longue came into his hands like... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 566 Seiten
...indeed the parent of English verse, and the first which showed us our tongue had numbers and beauty in it. Our language owes more to him than the French...tongue came into his hands like a rough diamond ; he polished it first and to that degree that all artists since him have admired the workmanship without... | |
 | Hermann Martin Flasdieck - 1928 - 264 Seiten
...Gründen die Großbuchstaben nicht beÄchtet, ebensowenig Kursivdruck. as well as the Latin 1) . . . Our language owes more to Him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy 2). Auf der andern Seite konnte niemand, der im Leben stand und schärfer zusah, verborgen bleiben,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 336 Seiten
...either great or graceful in poetry. He was indeed the parent of English verse, and the first that shew'd us our tongue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language owes more to him than the French to Cardinal Richlieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him, without being in the same... | |
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Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way. 
