 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...retaliation. The extreme flattery of Dryden's dedications has been objected to him, as a fault of an opposite description; and perhaps no writer has equalled...and that the adulation contained in dedications was thej as much a matter of course, as the words of submissive style which still precede the subscription... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...of meanness,» says Johnson, «he never seems to decline the practice, or lament the necessity. Pie considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage,...be judged of by the manners of the times; and that tlie adulation contained in dedications was then as much a matter of course, as the words of submissive... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...flattery of Dryden's dedications J LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN. 451 have been objected to him, as a fault of an opposite description ; and perhaps no writer has equalled...words of submissive style which still precede the subscription of an ordinary letter. It is probable, that Dryden considered his panegyrics as merely... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...retaliation. The extreme flattery of Dryden's dedications, has been objected to him, as a fault of an opposite description ; and perhaps no writer has equalled...words of submissive style which still precede the subscription of an ordinary letter. It is probable, that Dryden considered his panegyrics as merely... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...retaliation. The extreme flattery of Dryden's dedications has been objected to him, as a fault of an opposite description ; and perhaps no writer has equalled...charge, that the form of address to superiors must he judged of by the manners of the times ; and that the adulation contained in dedications was then... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, and bnnçs praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...whom he wished to court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another stamp. Of this kind of meanness istles." He had judgment which selects frofti life...than the reality ; and he had colours of language is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...encomiastic homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the feasibility of his invention, than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is, indeed, not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...whom he wished to court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another stamp. Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice, or lament...than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment It is indeed not certain that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...whom he wished to court on the morrow new wit and virtue with another stamp. Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is, indeed, not certain that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
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Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention,... 
