 | Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...beware of letting . ' them them tafle Goiver, or Chaucer at fiffl, left falling too much in love with antiquity, and not apprehending the weight, they grow...of danger, let them read both, the old and the new i but no lefs take heed, that their new flowers, and fweetnefs do hot as much corrupt, as the others... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...gusty. A sailor's word. S^U^fLOR. ns [Latin.] Coarseness ; nastincss; want of cleanliness and neatness. Take heed that their new flowers and sweetness do not as much corrupt as the others dryntss and squalor. Ben Jonson. What can filthy poverty give else, but beggary, fulsome nastiness,... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...beware of letting " them taste Gowex or Chaucer first, lest falling, too much " in love with antiquitjv and not apprehending the weight, " they grow rough and -barren in language only." Mfe. POPE, as we learn from one of his biographers, had ence formed the design of composing a discourse... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...Uonne : and beware of letting them taste Gower, or Chaucer at first, lest falling too much in love with antiquity, and not apprehending the weight, they grow...dryness and squalor, if they choose not carefully. Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language ; yet I would have him read for his matter, but... | |
 | 1819 - 532 pages
...Donne. And beware of letting them tastr Gower and Chaucer at first, lest falling too much in love with antiquity, and not apprehending the weight, they grow rough and barren in language only.' Now if there is any thing in this caution of Ben Jonson, he and his contemporaries are now somewhat... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...the Archipelago. SQUAL'OR, ni Lai. squalor. Coarseness; nastiness; want of cleanliness and neatness. Take heed that their new flowers and sweetness do...as much corrupt as the others dryness and squalor. Ben Jonson. What can filthy poverty give else, hut beggary, fulsome nastiness, tqvalar, ugliness, hunger,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 560 pages
...Donne : and beware of letting them taste Gower, or Chaucer at first, lest falling too much in love with antiquity, and not apprehending the weight, they grow...dryness and squalor, if they choose not carefully. Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language ; yet I would have him read for his matter, but... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...Donne : and beware of letting them taste Gower, or Chaucer at first, lest falling too much in love with corrupt as much as the others' dryness and squalor, if they choose not carefully. Spenser, in affecting... | |
 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...Donne : and beware of letting them taste Cower or Chaucer at first, lest falling too much in love with antiquity, and not apprehending the weight, they grow rough and barren in language only." " Periods are beautiful when they are not too long : for so they have their strength too, as in a pike... | |
 | Mary (queen of Scots.) - 1882 - 274 pages
...though Johnson does not give this sense ; but one of his quotations from Ben Jonson touches it nearly: "Take heed that their new flowers and sweetness do...much corrupt as the others' dryness and squalor," — and note farther that the word ' squall,' in the sense of gust, is not pure English, but the Arabic... | |
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And as it is fit to read the best authors to youth first, so let them be of the openest and clearest; as Livy before Sallust, Sidney before Donne. And beware of letting them taste Gower or Chaucer at first, lest falling too much in love with antiquity,... 
