 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 532 Seiten
...they are ' voces et prœterea nihil ;' — sometimes spoken of, rarely read, and never with advantage. Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible ; — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 528 Seiten
...they are ' TOC« et pneterea nihil ;'— sometimes spoken of, rarely read, and never with advantage. y at an average of between from 2700 to 3000 feet above the level of the sea. This valley, the owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does Hot deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1830 - 488 Seiten
...are ' voces et praeterea nihil ;' — sometimes .-¡poken of, rarely read, and never with advantage. Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible : — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 618 Seiten
...they are ' voces et pneterea nihil ;' — sometimes spoken of, rarely read, and never with advantage. Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible ; — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 504 Seiten
...they are ' voces et praeterea nihil;' — sometimes spoken of, rarely read, and never with advantage. Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible: — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 Seiten
...the best intellects of France and Ireland could have taken up respectively such residences. CHAUCER. CHAUCER, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible : — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Piers Plowman, or... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 388 Seiten
...' voces et praeterea nihil ; ' — sometimes spoken of, rarely read, and never with L 2 advantage. Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible : — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 Seiten
...they are 'voces et praeterea nihil ; ' — sometimes spoken of, rarely read, and never with advantage. Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible : — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 426 Seiten
...his incidents. When Warton, to display the genuine vein of the Chaucerian humor, imprudently analyzed the Miller's Tale, having reached the middle, the...on him, I think obscene and contemptible. He owed his celebrity merely to his antiquity." As if the greatest of our poets had only been celebrated in... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 428 Seiten
...his incidents. When Warton, to display the genuine vein of the Chaucerian humor, imprudently analyzed the Miller's Tale, having reached the middle, the...on him, I think obscene and contemptible. He owed his celebrity merely to his antiquity." As if the greatest of our poets had only been celebrated in... | |
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Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible: — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or Thomas of Ercildoune. 
