 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1887 - 674 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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 - 1895 - 234 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 changed 30 Dryden's gold for baser metal, of lower value though of greater bulk. but a gay and vigorous dissertation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 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...having changed Dryden's gold for baser metal, of lower 20 value, though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other essays on the same subject, the criticism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 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...baser metal, of lower value though of greater bulk s. 199 In this, and in all his other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism... | |
 | Maude Morrison Frank - English language - 1909 - 178 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...baser metal of lower value, though of greater bulk. D. Give in modern English the substance of the following quotations from sixteenth and seventeenth... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 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 Drvden is the criticism of a poet; not a dull collection of theorems, not a rude detection of faults,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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, not a rude detection of faults,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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, not 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... 
