 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and " And for there is so great diversitie, In English, and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God that none...miswrite thee, Ne thee mismetre for defaut of tongue." By his hasty and inconsiderate contradiction of honest Speght'g panegyric, Dryden has exposed himself... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1835 - 758 páginas
...pace Of Virgil, Ovid, Homer, Lucan, Stace. 15-17 And, for3 there is so great diversity In English, and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God that none miswritfc thee, Ne thee miss-metre for default of tongue ; And read where so thou be, or elles sung,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 páginas
...known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age." 'And for there is so great diversitie, In English and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God, that...miswrite thee, Ne thee mismetre for defaut of tongue,'" &c. How Speght made up the measure to his own satisfaction does not appear ; nor what those methods... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1854 - 294 páginas
...Chaucer himself adverts in the Troilus and Creseide: — And for there is so great diversite In English, and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God that none miswrite thee, Ne thee miumetre for defaut of tongue — words which imply that even in his own time the metre of his poetry... | |
 | Samuel Neil - 1865 - 344 páginas
...or recited, saying, " And, for ; there is so great diversitie In English and in writing of our tong, So pray I God that none miswrite thee, Ne thee mis-metre for defaut of tong. And redde whereso thou be, or else song, That thou be understood, God I beseech, But yet to purpose... | |
 | Thomas Nicholas - 1868 - 676 páginas
...English he complains in his Troilus and Creseide : — " And for there is so great diversite In English, and in writing of our tongue ; So pray I God that none mis- write thee, Ne thee mis-metre for defaut of tongue." Amid the confusion, and the fight for multiplying... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 664 páginas
...seëst space, Of Virgil, Ovid, Homer, Lucan, Stace. And, for there is so great diversity In English, and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God, that none miswrite thee, Nor thee mismetre, for default of tongue ! And read whereso thou be, or elles sung, That thou be unterstanden,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 662 páginas
...inspection. ' Lust— pleasure. 5 Fine — conclusion. And, for1 there is so great diversity In English, and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God that none miswritd thee, Ne thee miss-metre for default of tongue ; And read where so thou be, or elids sung,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke - 1870 - 676 páginas
...inspection. 2 Lust— pleasure. * Fine — conclusion. And, for1 there is so great diversity In English, and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God that none miswritd thee, Ne thee miss-metre for default of tongue ; And read where so thou be, or dids sung,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1871 - 636 páginas
...metre: — " And, for there is so great diversity In English and in writing of our tongue, So pray I to God that none miswrite thee Ne thee mismetre for defaut of tongue." These passages may not be absolutely irreconcilable with the position that Chaucer's verse was not... | |
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And for there is so great diversitie In English, and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God that none miswrite thee, Ne thee mismetre for defaut of tongue. 
