 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious ; and he corrected his own writings...severely than those of another man, bestowing twice the time and labour in polishing which he used in invention. It had perhaps been easy enough for me to... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into anyother man. His corrections were sober and judicious ; and he corrected his own writings much more severely than those of another man, bestowr Jng twice the time and labour in polishing which he used in invention. It had perhaps been... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 252 pages
...imaginations were such, as could not easily enter into the mind of any other man. " His corrections were sober, and judicious; and he corrected his own writings, much more severely, than those of any other man, bestowing twice the labour and pains in polishing, which he used in invention." Remarkable... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 462 pages
...other; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious: and he corrected his own writings...severely than those of another man, bestowing twice the time and labour in polishing, which he used in invention. It had perhaps been easy enough for me to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 450 pages
...other; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious : and he corrected his own writings...severely than those of another man, bestowing twice the time and labour in polishing, which he used in invention. It had perhaps been easy enough for me to... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 pages
...his imaginations '' were such, as could not easily " enter into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious, and he corrected his own writings much more severely ' than those of another man ; be' stowing twice the time and la' hour in polishing which he used ' in invention." Sir William D'Avenant's... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 pages
...were such, as could not easily ' enter into any other man. His corrections were sober and judi' cious, and he corrected his own ** writings much more severely " than those of another man ; be" stowing twice the time and la" hour in polishing which he used " in invention." Sir William D'Avenant's... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 pages
...other; for his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious, and he corrected his own writings much more severely than those of any other man ; bestowing twice the labour in polishing which he used in invention." Davenant had two... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...other; tor his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious, and he corrected his own writings much more severely than those of any other man ; bestowing twice the labour in polishing which he used in invention." Davenant had two... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pages
...other; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious; and he corrected his own writings...severely than those of another man, bestowing twice the time and labour in polishing, which he used in invention," &c. — Dryden's Works, vol. iii., p. 101.]... | |
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... first thoughts of his, contrary to the old Latin proverb, were not always the least happy. And as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. He borrowed not of any other; and his imaginations were such as could not easily... 
