| Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bomhast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say...poets Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.* Virgil's Eclogues. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton say, that there was no subject... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him: no man can say,...poets, " Quantum lenta Solent inter viburna cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary; that his language should become... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him: no man can say,...poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary; that his language should become... | |
| 1809 - 604 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say...himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta soient later vilurna cu/ircstl,' Vol. III. p. 470. The advantage of which we are now speaking is the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, ami did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lentii solent inter viburna... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is firesented to him : no man ran say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of fioets, Quantum lenta totent inter viburna cupressi. It is to be lamented, that such a writer should... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say,...ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raibe himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta sclent inter viburna cupressi." It is... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...inti bombast. But he is always great, when som :great occasion is presented to him : no man ci L k say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did...then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Qn.".;:!u;n lenta Solent inter viburna cnpr(ssi. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of i Eaton... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not1 then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta lolent inter viburna cupretti.... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he' is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say...above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter .eibwma cupressi. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton -ixy, that there was no subject... | |
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