 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 762 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, Sidnell Michael J., D. J. Conacher - 1991 - 317 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 - 568 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 - 209 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 - 1988 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 - 437 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 - 967 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 - 494 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... 
