 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 페이지
...serious swelling into bombast. But he ia always great when some great occasion is presented to him ; DO man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit,...then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantxiin lentfi solcnt inter vibmna cuprcssi.1 The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eaton say,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 페이지
...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 as high above the rest of poets. ' " Quantum lenta sclent inter viburna cupressi." The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 페이지
...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...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.1 The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eaton say, that there... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 페이지
...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 sublect for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets .... 'Beaumont... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 페이지
...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,...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. It is to be lamented that such a writer should want a commentary;... | |
 | Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price - 1998 - 216 페이지
...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...then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, as cypresses often do among bending osiers. 8 Shakespeare is up to what is great. (According to Dryden,... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 페이지
...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...raise himself as high above the rest of poets: Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. From Wordsworth's The Poet's Epitaph. But who is he with modest... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 페이지
...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...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi* The consideration of this made Mr Hales of Eton* say that there... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 페이지
...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...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, quantum lenta solent inter vibuma cupressi. ' [as cypresses often do among the bending osiers) 'The consideration... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2006 - 561 페이지
...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...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi [As much (taller) as cypresses usually are, among pliant viburnums.]... | |
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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... 
