 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few line^ is exhibited a character^ so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...of excellence, of having changed Dryden's gold for oaser metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk. To judge rightly of an author, we must transport... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...reformed ; nor can tne editors and admirers of Shakspeare, in all their emulation and reverence, lioast of much more than of having diffused and paraphrased...for baser metal, of lower value though of greater bulk.''1 1 The highest compliment ever paid to hii diction ha» been recorded by Mr. Malonc; namely,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...diminished) or reformed ; nor can trie editors and admirers of Shakspeare, in all their emulation and reverence, boast of much more than of having diffused...for baser metal, of lower value though of greater bulk."1 1 The highest compliment ever paid to his diction has been recorded by Mr. Malone ; namely,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...reformed; nor can trie editors and admirers of Shakspeare, in all their emulation and reverence, boa^t of much more than of having diffused and paraphrased...baser metal, of lower value though of greater bulk."' 1 The hUjhe»t compliment ever paid to his diction has been recorded by Mr. Molone ; iiiinuLl>, mil... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...diminished, or reformed ; nor can ;ue editors and admirers of Shakspeare, in all their emulation and reverence, boast of much more than of having diffused...baser metal, of lower value though of greater bulk/ * 1 The hlghcvt compliment ever paid to tils diction lias been recorded by Mr. Mulone ; namely, Tn... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 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,... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 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, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - Demonology - 1869 - 486 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... | |
 | 1874 - 820 pages
...diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors and admirers of Shakespeare, in all their emulation and reverence, boast of much more than of having diffused...baser metal, of lower value though of greater bulk." Mr. Malone, the critic, pays Dryden the highest compliment when he records that Edmund Burke imitated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... 
