 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 páginas
...scarce intelligible : and of those which we understand, 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, that in his latter plays9 he had worn off * It appears from... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 páginas
...scarce intelligible : and of those which we understand, some are ungrammatieal, others coarse ; and his whole style is so. pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure. It is true, that in his latter plays9 he had worn off 8 It appears from... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 500 páginas
...are scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, 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, that in his latter plays he had worn off somewhat of the... | |
 | 1845 - 816 páginas
...scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, 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 that, in his latter plays, he had worn off somewhat of the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 páginas
...scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, 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, that in his latter plays he had worn off somewhat of the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 páginas
...scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, 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 that, in his latter plays, he had worn off somewhat of the... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 páginas
...scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure."f * Preface to Juvenal. f Preface to Troilus and Cressida. In justice... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 238 páginas
...are scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure."f * Preface to Juvenal. t Preface to Troilus and Cressida. In justice... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 páginas
...scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure."f * Preface to Juvenal. t Preface to Troilus and Cressida. In justice... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 páginas
...scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are uugrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure."* Sometimes a word will emerge anew from the undercurrent of society,... | |
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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... 
