 How different a way of thinking from this is ours ! We can hardly at the present day understand what Menander meant, when he told a man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because...  Russell's Magazine - Page 90edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 634 pages
...a man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action...which arose under his pen as he went along. We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages, not for the sake of producing... | |
 | 1854 - 800 pages
...man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy, that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action...things which arose under his pen as he went along. We hare poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 pages
...a man who enquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action...which arose under his pen as he went along. We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake of producing... | |
 | 1854 - 798 pages
...man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy, that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action...things which arose under his pen as he went along. \Ve have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...a man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action...which arose under his pen as he went along. We have ^joerns which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 350 pages
...inquired aa to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a singlo line, because he had constructed the action of it...which arose under his pen as he went along. We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake of producing... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...man who inquired as to the progress of his poem, that he had finished it — not having yet written a single line — because he had constructed the action...have assured him that the merit of his piece depended upon the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along." Certainly it is an error to... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 340 pages
...a man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action...which arose under his pen as he went along. We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake of producing... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 344 pages
...he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action oi it in his mind. 'A modern critic would have assured...which arose under his pen as he went along. We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake of producing... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Jules Jacques Veyrassat - 1874 - 318 pages
...a man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action...arose under his pen as he went along. .... We have critics who seem to direct their attention merely to detached expressions, to the language about the... | |
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