 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...and our language not being a fettled thing, (like the French), has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible. In truth, Shakefpeare's language is one of his principal beauties ; and he has no lefs advantage over your Addifons... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...the beldam at his side — the grandam-hag — riVlanize his father's fame. But they are infinite: 'And our language not being a settled thing (like the French) has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years more likely to preserve our poetry from falling into insipidity, than pursuing the... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...beldam at his side — the grandam-hag — villanize his father's fame. — But they are infinite : and our language not being a settled thing (like the French), has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible. In truth, Shakspeare's... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Pope or Dryden, who perpetually borrow expressions from the former." " Our language, (he also writes,) not being a settled thing, like the French, has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity has not rendered them unintelligible. In truth, Shakspeare's... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...the beldam at his side — the grandam-hag — villanize his father's fame. But they are infinite : and our language not being a settled thing (like the French) has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible. In truth, Shakspeare's... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...the beldam at his side — the grandam-hag — villanize his father's fame. But they are infinite : and our language not being a settled thing (like the French) has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity have not rendered them uninteUigible. In truth, Shakespear... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...the Ixldam at his side — the prandam-has — villanise his father's fiime. But they are infinite: and our language not 'being a settled thing (like the French) has an undoubted riuht to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible. In... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...beldam at his side, — the grandam hag, — villanize his father's fame. — But they are infinite ; and our language not being a settled thing (like the...antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible. In truth Shakspeare's language is one of his principal beauties; and he has no less advantage over your Addisons... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...beldam at his side, —the grandam hag, — villanize his father's fame. — But they are infinite ; and our language not being a settled thing (like the...antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible. In truth Shakspeare's language is one of his principal beauties; and he has no less advantage over your Addisons... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...beldam at his side, — the grandam hag, — villanize his father's fame. — But they are infinite ; and our language not being a settled thing (like the French), has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible. In truth, Shakespear's... | |
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But they are infinite: and our language not being a settled thing (like the French) has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible. 
