 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 Seiten
...language. All our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court who could not park Euphuism, was as little regarded, as she which now there speaks not French." •t So that learned and sapient monarch was pleased to call his skill in politics. had been gaining... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 Seiten
...language. All our " ladies were then his scholars; and that beauty in court who " could not parle Euphuism, was as little regarded as she which " now there speaks not French." This extraordinary romance, so famous for its wit, so fashionable in the court of Queen Elizabeth,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814 - 408 Seiten
...Edward Blount *, " were his scholars ; and that beauty in court, which could not parley Euphueisme, was as little regarded as she which now there speaks not French :" in his title-page this gentleman styles him the witty, comical, facetiously-quick, and unparalleled... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 558 Seiten
...language ; all our ladies were his scholars ; and that beauty at court, which could not parley Euphuisme, that is to say, who was unable to converse in that...regarded as she which now there speaks not French." According to Mr. Blount, Lilly was deserving of the highest encomiums. He styles him, in his title-page,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 552 Seiten
...language ; all our ladies were his scholars ; and that beauty at court, which could not parley Euphuisme, that is to say, who was unable to converse in that...regarded as she which now there speaks not French." According to Mr. Blount, Lilly was deserving of the highest encomiums. He styles him, in his title-page,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1816 - 412 Seiten
...Edward Blount *, " were his scholars; and that beauty in court, which could not parley Euphueisme, was as little regarded as she which now there speaks not French:" in his title-page this gentleman styles him the witty, comical, facetiously-quick, and unparalleled... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 Seiten
...language. All our ladies were then his scholars; and that beauty in court who could not parley Euphuesme, was as little regarded as she which now there speaks not French :' a representation certainly not exaggerated; for Ben Jonson, describing a » JBerkcnliout's " Biographia... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...language. All our ladies were then scholars; and that beauty in court who could not paric Evphusim, was as little regarded, as she which now there speaks not French.'* In an age, when this taste, in its improved state, was the fashion of the court, — and the court... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 Seiten
...; all our ladies were then his scholars, and that beanty in court which could not parley Euphuism, was as little regarded, as she which now there, speaks not French. " These his plays crowned him with applause, and the spectators with pleasure. Thou canst not repent... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 Seiten
...language. All our ladies were then his scholars; and that beauty in court who could not parle Euphuism, was as little regarded, as she which now there speaks not French." The Satire in Cinthia's Revels is directed by Ben Jonson against this false and pedantic taste. t So... | |
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Our nation," says Sir Henry Blount, in the preface to a collection of some of Lyly's dramatic pieces which he published in 1632, " are in his debt for a new English which he taught them. 
