 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 314 pages
...convinced of their Truth and Solidity. And here give me Leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the Preface to his Works, that Wit and fine Writing doth not con/ sist so much in advancing Things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things 30 that are known an agreeable... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 pages
...164. Pope follows Boileau, of whom Addison writes : — ' Give me leave to mention what he has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.'... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur 20 Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1918 - 654 pages
...requisite in a prose author. . . . And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Comparative literature - 1918 - 662 pages
...requisite in a prose author. . . . And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - Comparative literature - 1925 - 566 pages
...Essay on Criticism, Addison says : " And here give me leave to mention what M. Boi- f leau has so very well enlarged upon in the Preface to his Works, that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new as in giving things that are known an agreeable... | |
 | Walter James Graham - English essays - 1928 - 440 pages
...convinced of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...convinc'd of their truth and solidity. And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.... | |
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And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. 
