 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 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." Dryden had ample means for judging of the... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 448 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." Davenant's loyalty or restlessness brought... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 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." Drydcn had ample means for judging of the... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 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 ami labour in polishing, which he used in invention," &c. — Dryden's Works, vol. iii., p. 101.... | |
 | William D'Avenant - 1874 - 544 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... | |
 | William Hugh Logan - 1874 - 564 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... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Lucy Toulmin Smith - 1879 - 518 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 us'd in invention." Preface to The Tempest or The Enchanted... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1887 - 380 pages
...Dramatica " says that " honor, courage, gratitude, integrity, and vivacity were the prominent featores of his mind," and Dryden cannot estimate too highly...Davenant was abreast of the culture, and passed muster in the opinion, of the best of his contemporaries. Nor should we, ordinarily, demand more than this.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 494 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 us'd in invention. It had perhaps been easie enough for me to... | |
 | 1896 - 722 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 labor in polishing which he used in invention. Gondibert is a heroic poem founded upon incidents... | |
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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... 
