 Of the persons who read the first canto, not one in ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the  The Calcutta University Calendar - Стр. clxixавторы: University of Calcutta - 1881Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - Страниц: 1116
...reader. Yet Macaulay finds in the " Faerie Queene" one unpardonable fault, the fault of tediousness. " Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant lieast." Macaulay himself was not of those few, or he would have known that the Blatant Beast does... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Страниц: 812
...ten reaches the end of the First Book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - 1913 - Страниц: 614
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - Страниц: 824
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1914 - Страниц: 406
...Canto yi. But, as Macaulay says, not one in a hundred readers perseveres to the end of the poem. " Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast." Now, as a matter of fact the Beast does not die. It is pursued and taken, but not killed, by Calidore.... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith - 1916 - Страниц: 312
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been 10 destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - Страниц: 432
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - Страниц: 370
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast.39 "At the death of the Blatant Beast": Macaulay himself, it is clear, did not persevere to the... | |
 | David Hill Radcliffe - 1996 - Страниц: 262
...the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast" (1880 1:560). Very few readers indeed, for no such event occurs! Despite the best efforts of popular... | |
 | 1918 - Страниц: 432
...Macaulay speaks of the tediousness which mars Spenser's 'Fairy Queen,' and drives off nearly all readers: "Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast." But the Blatant Beast is not killed ; he is taken and led captive by Sir Calidore, and afterwards escapes.... | |
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