 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...honoured, after she was dead. Few there are who have either had, or could have, such a loss ; tires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should...reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with the speculations of philosophy, where he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness... | |
 | 1822 - 608 pages
...me end where 1 begun. Dryden very justly .observes of Donne, that " he affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love." i , .,,... ', . .; Vly .,_!( Donne has not confined his metaphysical jargon to his... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...He affects the "metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature alone should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love.' That far-famed angler, Isaac Walton, wrote a life of Dr. Donne, and gave the following... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature alone should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love.' That far-famed angler, Isaac Walton, wrote a life of Dr. Donne, and gave the following... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 444 pages
...labyrinth ; for I cannot discern any, unless in the perplexity of his own thoughts. Stitlinfflfet. He perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations...of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts. Dryden. I ask whether the connection of the' extremes be not more clearly seen, in this simple and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 816 pages
...I cannot disсггс any, unless ш the perpltsily of his own thoughts. Stilliafjket. He ]*?rplexe$ the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts. Druden. 1 ask whether the connection of the extremes be na more clearly seen, in this simple and natural... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...greatest wit, though not the best poet of our nation." He "affects the metaphysics,'' he adds, "not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love." His satires are pungent and forcible, but exceedingly rugged and uncouth in their versification. Pope,... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...trial of the finger better than that of the ear.* "He affects," says Dryden, "the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...reign, and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with speculations of philosophy, where he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - Great Britain - 1843 - 428 pages
...He affecte the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature alone should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love." That far-famed angler, Isaac Walton, wrote a life of Dr. Donne, and gave the following... | |
 | W. White - 1844 - 274 pages
...greatest wit, though not the best poet, of our own nation;' and adds, that ' he affects metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love.' Donne's numbers, if they may be so called, are certainly the most rugged and uncouth... | |
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He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with... 
