 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...fades away before it. In- a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...essays on the same . -subject, the, criticism .of Dryden is the criticisnLQf a poet j not -a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...all their emulation of reverence, boast of much more v than of having diffused and paraphrased this epitome of excellence, of having changed Dryden's gold... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 502 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...emulation of reverence, boast of much more than of having diffusedand paraphrasedthis epitome of excellence, of having changed Dryden's gold for baser metal,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...said, that the editors « 4f~ and admirers of Shakespeare, in all their emulation of reverence, cannot boast of much more than of having diffused and paraphrased...baser metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk. While Dryden examined, discussed, admitted, or rejected the rules proposed by others, he forbore, from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...than of having diffused and paraphrased this epitome '2 c 2 of excellence, of having changed Dryden's gold for baser metal, of lower value though of greater... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...baser metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk. • r . In this, and in all his other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...emulation of reverence, boast of much more than of having cUtilised and paraphrased this epitome of excellence, of having changed Dryden's gold for baser metal,... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character BO extensive in its comprehension, and so various in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,...much more than of having diffused and paraphrased thisepitomc of excellence, ' of changing Dryden's gold for baser metal , of lower value though of greater... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection . of faults,... | |
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Longinus, on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed... 
