 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - Страниц: 352
...Dryden who said of Cowley, whom he elsewhere calls " the darling of my youth," 2 that he was " sunk in reputation because he could never forgive any conceit...way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small." 3 But the passages I have thus far cited as specimens of our poet's coarseness (for poet he surely... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - Страниц: 426
...all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so 30 he knows when to leave off; a continence which is practised...poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and 35 small. There was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - Страниц: 530
...Maro, deliciae, decus et desiderium aevi sui." Fasti Oxon. ii. 209. Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : — ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small. . . . For this... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - Страниц: 422
...Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and 35 small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for... | |
 | 1906 - Страниц: 548
...which, in the generations that followed, have contributed to the almost total neglect of his poetry: "One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation,...small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted ; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1909 - Страниц: 250
...far-fetched conceits. He did not write academic exercises as often as did Cowley, of whom Dryden said : " He could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept like a drag-net great and small." The poet in Crashaw often put the pedant to sudden flight; in a long-sustained, wearisome, and most... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - Страниц: 776
...learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he and company ill sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - Страниц: 924
...sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also [10 an company beciuse he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - Страниц: 522
...learned_in_. alL. sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence which...small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted ; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1922 - Страниц: 330
...learn'd in all sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence which...by any of the ancients excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great... | |
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients... 
