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" ... all the rest of animals, for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough as an author ; and this history and that poem are such extraordinary things of their kind, that it will be but suitable to see the author of the worst poem become likewise the translator... "
The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies ... - Page 56
1846
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Issue 1

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...animals, for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough for an author : and this history and that poem are such extraordinary things of their kind, that it will...translator of the worst history, that the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...animals, for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough for an author : and this history and that poem arc such extraordinary things of their kind, that it will...translator of the worst history, that the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 1

John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...animals, for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough for an author : and this history and that poem are such extraordinary things of their kind, that it will...translator of the worst history, that the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...Vavillas may serve " well enough as an author: and this history and that poem are such extra" ordinary things of their kind, that it will be but suitable...of the worst history that ** the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportiona" bly, he will hardly find that he has gained much...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...Vaiillas may serve. " well enough as an author: and this history and that poem arc such extra«c ordinary things of their kind, that it will be but suitable...of the worst history that " the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportiona" bly, he will hardly find that he has gained much...
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The Works of John Dryden,: Religio laici, or a Layman's Faith, an epistle ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pages
...animals, for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough for an author : and this history and that poem are such extraordinary things of their kind, that it will...translator of the worst history, that the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 474 pages
...animals, for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough for an author : and this history and that poem are such extraordinary things of their kind, that it will...translator of the worst history, that the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 10

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 480 pages
...animals, for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough for an author : and this history and that poem are such extraordinary things of their kind, that it will...translator of the worst history, that the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...He soon after was engaged in a task, -of a kind as unpromising as remote from his poeextraor.linary things of their kind, that it will be but suitable...translator of the worst history, that the age has produced. If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...for. whom M. Varillas may <t serve well enough as an author: and this history *' and that poem are such extraordinary things of " their kind, that it will be but suitable to see f' the author of the worst poem become likewise is a mistake. See Maloiie,' p. 194, ' &c. C. " the...
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