| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...Augustus his palace; though in another place he is more bold, where he says, — et longas visent Captolm pampas.* But to do this always, and never be able...if every word were a pill to swallow: he gives us 3 These lines are in the eighth ./Eneid. * This remark is unfounded ; for the words are — et longa... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the ' most easily digested : but we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow : he gives us 3 These lines are in the eighth many times a hard nut to break our teeth, without a kernel for our... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested : but we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow: he give* us 1 These lines are in the righth yfcneid. * This remark is unfounded; for the words arc—tt... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...quotation, for verbo, we should read verbis ; and for metuam sumtni, — timeum magni. — MA LONE. to write a line without it, though it may be admired...is this difference betwixt his satires and Doctor Donne'sy that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence ; the other gives... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...hard, and unnaturally, is his new way of elocution. There is this difference between his Satires and Donne's, That the one gives us deep thoughts in common...other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words." Essay on Dramatic Poesy, p. 63, 64. Letter from T. Gray, to Thomas Warton. Sir, Our friend, Dr. Hurd,... | |
| John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...is the most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of CleiveUnd's without making a face at if, as if every word were a pill to swallow : He gives us many times a hard nut to hreak our teeth, without a kernel for our pains. So that there is this difference hetwixt hia satires... | |
| John Dryden - 1889 - 208 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested : but we 20 cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were...that there is this difference betwixt his Satires and 25 doctor Donne's ; that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence ;... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were...the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, * A mistake for eighth. t This remark is unfounded ; for the words are — et longce. visent Capitolia... | |
| John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the I most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were...the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, * A mistake for eighth. t This remark is unfounded ; for the words are — et longas visent Capitolia... | |
| John Dryden - 1898 - 232 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily 15 digested: but we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were...pains. So that there is this difference betwixt his 20 satires and Dr. Donne's; that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence;... | |
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