 | 1830 - 584 pages
...except hy such as knew so admirably how to use the spoil : for, as Dryden has happily remarked of him, " he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not ti, be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in other poets,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...Individual. the Roman authors of those times, whom he has not translated in "Sejanus" and. "Catiline.1' But he has done his robberies so openly, that one...victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...poets, and especially Tasso; but we may apply to him what Dry den so happily said of Ben Jonson — " He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him." The flowers which he transplants from the sunny gardens of Italy gain new bloom and fragrance by being... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom be has not translated in Bejanus and Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see ho fears not to be taxed by any law. Ho invades authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...translated in Bejanus and Catiline. But he has done hie robberies во openly, that one may see ho fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors...victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represented old Rome to us in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...of what Dryden says of Ben Jonson's plagiarisms: — " He has done his robberies so openly, that we see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades...authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in any other poet is only victory in him." Jeffrey's criticisms on Wordsworth in the Edinburgh eview probably... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...may see he fears not to he taxed hy any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would he theft in other poets, is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he 00 represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...or historian among the Roman authors of those times, whom he has not translated in ' Sejanus ' and ' Catiline." But he has done his robberies so openly,...other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of those writers he so represents old Home to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that, if one... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...those times, whom he has not translated in ' Sejanus ' and ' Catiline.' But he has done his robberiea so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed...other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of those writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that, if one... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...or historian among the Roman authors of those times, whom he has not translated in ' Sejanus ' and ' Catiline.' But he has done his robberies so openly,...other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of those writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that, if one... | |
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But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. 
