 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 페이지
...LOVE: " Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare ; " They spoil their business with an over-care ; " And he who servilely creeps after sense, " Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. " Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring " Allow'd his fancy the full force and swing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 페이지
...Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare ; " They spoil their business with an over-care ; •" And he who servilely creeps after sense, " Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. " Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring " Allow'd his fancy the full force and swing... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 450 페이지
...will see. y Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care ; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allowed his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 462 페이지
...will see. 3 Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allowed his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 페이지
...POETRY. Poets, like lovers, should be bold, and dare ; They spoil their business with an over care : And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence: And though he stumble in a full career, Yet rashness is a better fault than fear. DRYDEN. IF it be,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 페이지
...over the critics of the time. Their general observations' ' Evelyn's Memoirs, i9th June, i668. he cuts short, by observing, that those who make them produce...and, by a still more forced derivation, the line, « A in I follow fate, which does too fast pursue, » is said to be borrowed from Virgil, «Eludit... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 페이지
...over the critics of the time. Their general observations ' Evelyn's Memoirs, igth June, 1668. he cuts short, by observing, that those who make them produce...an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, 11 A in I he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence,» is justified... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 566 페이지
...often assumed over the critics of the time. Their general observations he cuts * Evelyn's Memoirs, 19th June, 1668 short, by observing, that those who...And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, bat ne'er will reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutuf of Horace ; and, by... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 페이지
...will see. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over care ; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. 1s Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 페이지
...superiority, which Dryden often assumed over the critics of the time. Their general observations he cuts short, by observing, that those who make them produce...reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit hwmi tutus " of Ho1 Evelyn's Memoirs, 19th June, 1668. race ; and, by a still more forced derivation,... | |
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Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. 
