 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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 & dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors and admirers of Shakespeare, in all their emulation of reverence, boast of much...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 - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors and admirers of Shakespeare, in all their emulation of reverence, boast of much...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 - 1825 - 506 pages
...that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors and admirers of Shakespeare, in all their emulation of reverence, boast of much...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...has said, that the editors and admirers of Shakspeare, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 566 pages
...has said, that the editors t 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 344 pages
...has said, that the editors 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,... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 514 pages
...without exaggeration — in a " few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in " comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, " that nothing...changed Dryden's " gold for baser metal, of lower value tho' of greater " bulk." Dr. Johnson's own preface to Shakspeare is excellent. TR 1669. Jan. 7. Island... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...has said, that " the editors and admirers of Shakspeare, 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 - English poetry - 1835 - 476 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...paraphrased this epitome of excellence, of having cha " Inihis and in all his other essays on the same subject the en icism of Dryden is the criticism... | |
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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... 
