 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...Otway, shone; But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakspeare scarce eifac'da line. Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, — the art to blot. Some doubt if equal pains or equal fire The humbler Mnse of comedy require. But in known images of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...Otway, shone: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakespeare scarce effac'da line. Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, The humbler muse of comedy require. But in known images... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...Otway shone : But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And ' fluent Shakespeare scarce erlar'da line. Fv'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blpt. Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, Tlie * humbler Muse of comedy require. But in known... | |
 | John Philip Kemble - 1813 - 182 pages
...representation, it may be allow'd, tbat ** fluent Shakipeare toarce effaced a line} *' Ev'n copiout Dryden wanted, or forgot, " The last, and greatest Art, the Art to blot." A few lines of interpolation, here and there, will be observed ; inserted merely for the purpose of... | |
 | 1821 - 734 pages
...avowed opinion of some of the best writers of the present and past ages. What says Mr. Pope? " Immortal Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot." Many a reader of Dryden is tempted to exclaim, , " So thick the beauties and the faults appear, Those... | |
 | 1871 - 1202 pages
...obliviousness : — " Bnt Olway failed to polish or refine, And fluent Shakespeare scarce erased a line J Even copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art,— the art to blot." Tet we hope in another edition to miss such words as " fisticuffs," " bumptious," " rollicking," "scrimmage,""... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Otway shone : But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shnkspeare scarce effac'da line. Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, The humbler Muse of comedy require. But in known images... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...Otway, shone: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakspeare scarce effaced a line. E'en copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. The stage how loosely does Astraa tread, Who fatrly puts all characters to bed I And tdle Cibler, how he... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...shone : But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakspeare searee effae'da line. Ev'n eopious unseen, as lamps in sepulehres ; Like Eastern kings, a lazy state the Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, The humbler Muse of eomedy require. But in known images... | |
 | 1822 - 608 pages
...^-— — " Otway failM to polish or refine, And fluent Shakspeare scarce effac'da line : . ,,. . E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art, the art to blot." POPE. o persons of literary taste and riuiination it is a pursuit of no leasing or uninstmctive nature... | |
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Show'd us that France had something to admire. Not but the Tragic spirit was our own, And full in Shakespear, fair in Otway shone: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakespear scarce effac'da line. 
