 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1899 - 626 pages
...for this title there is something to be said. ' Donne,' says Dryden, ' affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires, but in his amorous verses where...hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love.' Thus he often ponders over the mystery of love, and is exercised by subtle questions as to its nature,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 390 pages
...the same delight. He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amourous verses ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice...should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softness of love. In this (if I may be pardoned for so bold a truth) Mr. Cowley has copied him to a... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...the same delight. He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amourous verses ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice...should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softness of love. In this (if I may be pardoned for so bold a truth) Mr. Cowley has copied him to a... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 396 pages
...the same delight. He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amourous verses ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice...should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softness of love. In this (if I may be pardoned for so bold a truth) Mr. Cowley has copied him to a... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 420 pages
...panegyric." Dryden came to depreciate the love poetry of Donne, saying that "he affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...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... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 348 pages
...you 2° both with the same admiration, but not with the same delight. He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should 25 engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love. In this (if I may be pardoned... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 630 pages
...for this title there is something to be said. ' Donne,' says Dryden, ' affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires, but in his amorous verses where...hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love.' Thus he often ponders over the mystery of love, and is exercised by subtle questions as to its nature,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1908 - 626 pages
...for this title there is something to be said. ' Donne,' says Dryden, ' affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires, but in his amorous verses where...their hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of Jove.' Thus he often ponders over the mystery of love, and is exercised by subtle questions as to its... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1122 pages
...you both with the same admiration, but not with the same delight. He affects the" metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where...with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should ingage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love. In this (if I may be pardon'd... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...with the same admiration, but not with the same delight. He affects the metaphysics, not only in liis satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only...with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should mgnge their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love. In this (if I may be pardon'd for... | |
| |
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... 
