 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 σελίδες
...of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied, if it cause delight : for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : instruction can be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 σελίδες
...of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied, if it cause delight : for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 σελίδες
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | 1845 - 816 σελίδες
...verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it canse delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 σελίδες
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | 1845 - 816 σελίδες
...enemies of verso will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | 1845 - 842 σελίδες
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 σελίδες
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | 1868 - 690 σελίδες
...any kind of verse in real life. But the argument for rhyme is of another kind. " I am satisfied if it cause delight, for delight is the chief if not the only end of poesy [he should have said means} ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 σελίδες
...any kind of verse in real life. But the argument for rhyme is of another kind. " I am satisfied if it cause delight, for delight is the chief if not the only end of poesy [he should have said means] ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs... | |
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I am satisfied if it cause delight. For delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy. Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. 
