...so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. Pie is many times flat and insipid : his comic wit degenerating into clenches,...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta soUnt inter Viburna Ouprtai." 8 His alterations from Chaucer and Boccaccio show...

...he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, ' Quantum lenta solent inter viburnacupressi.' " The consideration of this made Mr Hales of...

...there, I cannot say he is every where alike: were he so, I should do him inlury to compare him with the greatest of mankind, He is many times flat, insipid:...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...

...laboriously, but luckily." Whereas in Jonson's labored art "you find little to retrench or alter," Shakespeare "is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast."56 The critical terms first offered by Jonson at the turn of the century proved elastic enough...

...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...did not then 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...

...again, Dryden sets the tone, finding Shakespeare both the most brilliant and the dullest of poets: "He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating...into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast" (Monk, 55). This objection appears throughout Dryden's essays, particularly in "The Grounds of Criticism...

...tragedy: 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;...did not 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...

...learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there ... He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating...serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great. :>n Shakespeare An l-'.ssau of Dramatic I'oesy (1 668) 7 He invades authors like a monarch; and what...

...there.1 1 cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so I should do him an 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. From Wordsworth's The Poet's Epitaph. But who is...

...there. 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;...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*...