 Dear Mr. Bickerstaff," says he, shaking me by the hand, " every body knows you to be a judge of these things : and to tell you truly, I read over Roscommon's translation of ' Horace's Art of Poetry* three several times, before I sat down to write the...  The Tatler - Page 261by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...you truly, 30 1 So S ; C and T have " naturally." I read over Roscommon'?, translation of Horace''-, Art of Poetry three several times, before I sat down to write the Sonnet which I have shown you. But you shall hear it again, and pray observe every line of it, for not one of them shall... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Authors, English - 1909 - 368 pages
...thought of a poet." "Dear Mr. Bickerstaffe, (says he, shaking me by the hand,) everybody knows you to be a judge of these things; and to tell you truly,...before I sat down to write the sonnet which I have shown you. But you shall hear it again, and pray observe every line of it; for not one of them shall... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...though) of a poet." "Dear Mr. Bickerstaff , " says he, shaking me by the hand, "everybody knows you with rever@A + ' Horace 's Art of Poetry ' three several times, before I sat down to write the son net which I have... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...thought of a poet." "Dear Mr. Bickeretaff , " says he, shaking me by the hand, "everybody knows you e. The thought suggested Itself (to which of us I do 1 read over Roscommon's translation of 'Horace's Art of Poetry' three several times, before I sat down... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 pages
...thought of a poet." " Dear Mr. Bickerstaff," says he, shaking me by the hand, " everybody knows you to be a judge of these things ; and to tell you truly, I read over Roscommon's translation of Horace's An of Poetry three several times before I sat down to write the sonnet which I have shown you. But... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...thought of a poet." [70 "Dear Mr. Bickerstaff," says he, shaking me by the hand, "everybody knows you to be a judge of these things; and to tell you truly,...before I sat down to write the sonnet which I have shown you. But you shall hear it again, and pray observe every line of it; for not one of them shall... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...'Horace's Art of Poetry' three several times, before I sat down to write the sonnet which I have shown EN OF VERONA Who is Silvia? what is she, That all...commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The heav approba- [80 tion. When dressed in laurel wreaths you shine. "That is," says he, "when you have your... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Comparative literature - 1918 - 662 pages
...No. 163. 'Dear Mr. Biekerstaffe, (says he [Ned Softly] shaking me by the hand,) every body knows you to be a judge of these things; and to tell you truly,...before I sat down to write the sonnet which I have shown you.' (2. 149) No. 165." He [the pedant-critic] hath formed his judgment upon Homer, Horace,... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1918 - 678 pages
...No. 168. 'Dear Mr. Bickerstaffe, (says he [Ned Softly], shaking me by the hand,) every body knows you to be a judge of these things ; and to tell you truly,...before I sat down to write the sonnet which I have shown yon.' (2. 149) No. 165." He [the pedant-critic] hath formed his judgment upon Homer, Horace,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 534 pages
...thought of a poet.' < Bear Mr. Bickerstafle, (says he) shaking me by the hand, every body knows you to be a judge of these things ; and to tell you truly,...before I sat down to write the sonnet which I have shown you. But you shall hear it again, and pray observe every line of it, for not one of them shall... | |
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