 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 페이지
...there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid;...raise himself as high above the rest of the poets, — Qnantam Icnta solcnt inter viburna capitis. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales, of Eton,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 534 페이지
...there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. " The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton... | |
 | 1828 - 410 페이지
...feeling to be developed, he is 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 페이지
...Ht is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit dege limiting into clenches, his serious swelling '^ bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him; no man CM say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and dirt not then raise himself as high above the rest... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 페이지
...injury, to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and ms,p,d ; h,s conuc w,t degenerating into clenches ; his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when »om« great occasion is presented to him.' DRYDES'S Essay on Dramatic Poetry when we would least wish... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 페이지
...there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the lood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conecious...; 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 페이지
...an injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his .serious swelling...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... | |
 | 1830 - 288 페이지
...so4, I should do him " injury to compare him to the greatest of " mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; " his comic wit degenerating into clenches;...swelling into bombast. But he is " always great when sonae great occasion is pre" sentedto him. " Great he may be justly called, as the extent and force... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 페이지
...there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike-, were he so, I should do him injury to compare him witli the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his . comic wit degenerating into clinches; his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 514 페이지
...— I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind — he is many times flat, insipid...he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not raise himself, as high above the rest of poets — " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi."... | |
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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... 
