 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1811 - 490 pages
...editor observes), of harmony and variety of versification, ai well as general perspicuity of style, Minot is perhaps equal, if not superior, to any English poet before the i6th, or even, with very few executions, before the i;th ttntury, MIRABEAU (MARQUIS DE) of Paris, a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...reliable authority, for his prejudices and prepossessions were even more than a match for his judgment — that "in point of ease, harmony, and variety of versification,...very few exceptions, before the seventeenth century." ... . JOHN CAPGRAVE. (Circa 1338.) John Capgrave, born at Lynn in Norfolk, and monk of St. Augustine's... | |
 | Clarissa Rinaker - Antiquarians - 1916 - 650 pages
...by Ritson: "In point of ease, harmony, and variety of versification, as well as general perspicuity, Laurence Minot is, perhaps, equal, if not superior,...very few exceptions before the seventeenth century." 101 In facility of rhyming and choice of words Ritson gave precedence only to Robert of Brunne and... | |
 | Henry Alfred Burd - Antiquarians - 1916 - 234 pages
...by Ritson: "In point of ease, harmony, and variety of versification, as well as general perspicuity, Laurence Minot is, perhaps, equal, if not superior,...even, with very few exceptions before the seventeenth century."101 In facility of rhyming and choice of words Ritson gave precedence only to Robert of Brunne... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - Language and languages - 1916 - 638 pages
...Ritson : "In point of ease, harmony, and variety of versification, as well as general perspicuity, Laurence Minot is, perhaps, equal, if not superior, to any English poet before tlie sixteenth, or even, with very few exceptions before the seventeenth century."101 In facility of... | |
 | English philology - 1918 - 660 pages
...hobbles on unscannable feet, but there is small logic in damning him only to assert, as Ritson does, that "in point of ease, harmony, and variety of versification,...very few exceptions, before the seventeenth century. " Chaucer is not "excepted from all such comparisons " (p. 117), though he is excepted in regard to... | |
 | David Matthews - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...that, in point of ease, harmony, and variety of versification, as well as general perspicuity of stile, Laurence Minot is, perhaps, equal, if not superior,...are any way remarkable for a particular facility of rimeing and happy choice of words: Robert of 41 CTC, iv, 67 n.54. 42 As the common belief had it; see... | |
 | English philology - 1918 - 652 pages
...hobbles on unscannable feet, but there is small logic in damning him only to assert, as Ritson does, that "in point of ease, harmony, and variety of versification,...very few exceptions, before the seventeenth century. " Chaucer is not "excepted from all such comparisons" (p. 117), though he is excepted in regard to... | |
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Laurence Minot is, perhaps, equal, if not superior, to any English poet before the sixteenth, or even, with very few exceptions before the seventeenth century. 