...in such a florid form of Words, and such tedious Circumlocutions, as are used by none but Pédants in our own Country, and at the same time, fill their...ashamed of, before they have been two Years at the Unisersity." (Spectator Nr. 5 v. 6. 3. 1711, p. 12.) In den Nummern vom 15. 3. und 21. 3. 1711 kommt...

...celebrated Operas. Addison remarks in Spectator, No. 5 : " The finest writers among the modern Italians ... fill their writings with such poor imaginations and...before they have been two years at the University." a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. " Perhaps Gay had in mind the sentimental...

...celebrated Operas. Addison remarks in Spectator, No. 5: "The finest writers among the modern Italians ... fill their writings with such poor imaginations and...before they have been two years at the University." a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. " Perhaps Gay had in mind the sentimental...

...Hohlheit und Absurdität der italienischen Librettos : ,,The finest Writers among the Modern Italians express themselves in such a florid form of Words,...such tedious Circumlocutions, as are used by none but Pédants in our own Country, and at the same time, fill their Writings with such poor imiginations...

...Operas. Addison remarks in Spectator, No. 5 : " The finest writers among the modern Italians . . . fill their writings with such poor imaginations and conceits, as our youths are ashamed of, hefore they have heen two years at the University." a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon...

...so ambitiously conform ourselves. The truth of it is, the finest writers among the modern Italians express themselves in such a florid form of words,...before they have been two years at the university. Some may be apt to think that it is the difference of genius which produces this difference in the...

...Form of Words, and such tedious Circumlociv tions, as are used by none but Pedants in our own Countryi and at the same time fill their Writings with such...before they have been two Years at the University, Some may be apt to think, that it is the difference of Genius which produces this difference in the...

...so ambitiously conform ourselves. The truth of it is, the finest writers among the modern Italians express themselves in such a florid form of words,...before they have been two years at the university. Some may be apt to think that it is the difference of genius which produces this difference in the...

...a tone which seems an immediate echo from Bouhours : ' The finest Writers among the Modern Italians express themselves in such a florid Form of Words,...as are used by none but Pedants in our own Country' (No. 5, p. 22). But from a later sentence it is clear that he was not thinking in particular of the...

...anti-Italian tendency in England. " The truth of it is, the finest writers among the modern Italians express themselves in such a florid form of words...before they have been two years at the university — And as for the poet himself, from whom the dreams of this opera are taken, I must entirely agree...