 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently, as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : delectus verborum origo est eloquerrtice. It was the saying of Julius Caesar, one so curious in his,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...the Water-poetY' rhymes. Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : delectus verborum origo est eloquent... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...the Water-poetV rhymes. Our language is noble, full, and significant; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words: delectus verborum origo e$t eloquent... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...defence of plays in verse. My words are these : " Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he, who is a master of it, may not clothe...think, " unlock a door," was a thing as vulgar as could he spoken; yet Seneca could make it sound high and lofty in his Latin. Reserate clusos regii pastes... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...refused to pay the subscription. - "V* is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : o Dtlectus verborvm origo est eloqttentia.... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...wrote eighty books, which not only made noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : Delectus verbo rum origo est eloquently.... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1889 - 208 pages
...significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not 5 clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : delectus verborum origo est eloquentice^. It was the saying of Julius Caesar, one so curious in his,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1892 - 428 pages
...the Water-poet's rhymes.* Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words — Delectus verborum origo eat eloquentix.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it \r, as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words — Delectus verborum origo est eloquentix. * John Taylor, the Water-poet as he called himself, from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 526 pages
...defence of plays in verse. My words are these : " Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he, who is a master of it, may not clothe...Seneca could make it sound high and lofty in his Latin : ' Reserale clusos regii posies lar'ui.' " But he says of me, " That being filled with the precedents... | |
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Our language is noble, full, and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words : delectus verborum origo est eloquentiae. 
