 | 1868 - 690 ページ
...Cowley, whom he elsewhere calls " the darling of my youth," J that he was " sunk in reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and * This probably suggested to Young the grandiose image in his " Last... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 ページ
...so he knows also when to leave off — a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late poets (Cowley) is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 ページ
...say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets l is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 ページ
...Cowley, whom he elsewhere calls "the darling of my youth,"2 that he was sunk in reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small.3 But the passages I have thus far cited as specimen's of our... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 ページ
...ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets ' is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept, like a drag-net, great and small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted; whole... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 ページ
...say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept like... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 ページ
...so he knows also when to leave off— a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but swept... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 ページ
...after all, did service to the mechanism of literature by his ingenuity, even if, as Dryden said, " he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small," it was Waller who more especially struck out the path which... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 ページ
...after all, did service to the mechanism of literature by his ingenuity, even if, as Dryden said, " he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small," it was Waller who more especially struck out the path which... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 ページ
...say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets t is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
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One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net great and small. 
