 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 ページ
...example of the excessive use of classical words (the classical words are printed in italics]:— " Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited...without consideration and published without correction." In the following (from Swift) the Saxon element predominates (the classical words are in italics):—... | |
 | 1872 - 660 ページ
...had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope: and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has...Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited Dy some external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity : he composed without consideration, and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 ページ
...more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. 10. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion or extorted by... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1874 - 468 ページ
...more ; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope : and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not...better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, cither excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity ; he composed without consideration,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1875 - 458 ページ
...place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has nol better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty,...external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity ; he com posed without consideration, and published without correction. What his mind could supply at call,... | |
 | 1877 - 844 ページ
...rather than creative imagination or intensity of feeling. " Dryden's performances," says Johnson, " were always hasty, either excited by some external...could supply at call, or gather in one excursion. wai all that he sought, and all that he gave." Mr. Christie, in his recent edition of Dryden's poetical... | |
 | 1877 - 828 ページ
...rather than creative imagination or intensity of feeling. " Dryden's performances," says Johnson, "*«K always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity ; he compose" without consideration, and published without correction. W181 his mind could supply at call,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1877 - 468 ページ
...more; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope : and even of Drydeu it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Drydeu's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 ページ
...more ; for every other writer since Mil*x>n must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs he has not...consideration, and published without correction. What bis mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 ページ
...more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. 8. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion or extorted by... | |
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Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. 
