 | John Platts - 1826 - 882 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." Besides his plays, Shakspeare published in 159t two poems, entitled, Venus and Adonis, and Lucrece... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 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...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets, — Quantum lenta sclent inter viburna capitis. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 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...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets, — Quantum lenta sclent inter viburna capitis. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 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...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets, — Quantum Icnta sclent inter viburna capitis. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 534 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. " The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton say, that there was no subject of which any poet... | |
 | 1828 - 410 pages
...often languid and obscure, but as. Dryden more happily expresses it, " he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a subject tit for hie wit (genius)r and did not then raise himself as high above other poets, quantum... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...wit degenerating into clinches; his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say...rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cdpressi.' * Of the moral tendency of Shakspeare's dramatic writings it is extremely difficult to speak... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some Ilion blnze, And lighten glimmering Xauthus with...; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam iiimsclf as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta soient inter viburna cnpressi.(l) The consideration... | |
 | 1830 - 430 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 not raise himself above the best of poets." COINCIDENCES. The 3rd of September was a day particularly ominuus... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...wit degenerating into clenches, bis 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 riburaa cupressi.' It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary ; that his language... | |
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I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when... 
