 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 362 ページ
...Cowley, whom he elsewhere calls " the darling of my youth,""* 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 specimens of... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 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 specimens of... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 ページ
...say, so 30 he knows 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,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 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 forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 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 forgive any conceit which came in his way : but swept... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1909 - 250 ページ
...far-fetched conceits. He did not write academic exercises as often as did Cowley, of whom Dryden said : " He could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept like a drag-net great and small." The poet in Crashaw often put the pedant to sudden flight;... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 ページ
...say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely sman and company sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 ページ
...say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely not kindness! I have used thee, Filth as thou art, with human care; and l poetsi is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way,... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 638 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 dragnet, great and small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted; whole... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 ページ
...Account of the. Greatest English Poets. 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... | |
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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. 
