 I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...  The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby]. - Side 145af Samuel Johnson - 1825Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 sider
...comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when great occasion is presented to him. No man can say...above the rest of poets, *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.'"1 "Criticism goes back for names worthy of being put into competition with his,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1845 - 638 sider
...greatest of mankind. He i» many times flat mid insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches ; hi* serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him." DnrDzn'b Essay on Dramatic Poetry. pursuing; and these interruptions to our pleasure too frequenri;.... | |
 | Allan H. Gilbert - 1967 - 724 sider
...the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,72 his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lento, solent inter vibuma cupressi.™ The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton say that there... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 sider
...the greatest of mankind, He is many times flat, insipid: his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast, But he is always...presented to him: no man can say he ever had a fit sublect for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets .... 'Beaumont... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 sider
...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. It is to be lamented that such a writer should want a commentary; that his language... | |
 | Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price - 1998 - 216 sider
...the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, as cypresses often do among bending osiers. 8 Shakespeare is up to what is great. (According to Dryden,... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 sider
...the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...above the rest of poets: Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. From Wordsworth's The Poet's Epitaph. But who is he with modest looks, And clad in... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 sider
...the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...above the rest of poets, quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi* The consideration of this made Mr Hales of Eton* say that there was no subject of... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 sider
...the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...above the rest of poets, quantum lenta solent inter vibuma cupressi. ' [as cypresses often do among the bending osiers) 'The consideration of this made... | |
 | Laura Nash, Howard Stevenson - 2004 - 328 sider
...most comprehensive soul. ... He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into cliches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him. — Dryden on Shakespeare1 Competing scores and mixed records are inevitable... | |
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