 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 pagina’s
...is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since hie earlier works more than a century has passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete." After the heroic plays of Dryden, The Mourning Bride of Congreve and the Venice Preserved of Otway... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pagina’s
...whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh ; and though since the publication of his works more than a century has elapsed, yet they have nothing uncouth or obsolete.*... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pagina’s
...bis own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...modes as may be easily noted. Dryden is always another ana the same ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form, nor appears to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pagina’s
...own. Everything is "icnaad bj^rim play nf imaga» nnd thf gprigbtlioes» of expreeeien. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since hia earlier works more than a century has passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete. " He who... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pagina’s
...his own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...same " ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegancies in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pagina’s
...his own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...same " ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegancies in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pagina’s
...his own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...same"; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegancies in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 pagina’s
...his own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete." These qualities, so admirably described by Dr Johnson, shine with undiminished lustre in the preface... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pagina’s
...play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feebliff~th~civigh all seems careless, there is nothing harsh ; and though,...is always another and the same, he does not exhibit 20 a second time the same elegances in the same form, nor appears to have any other than that of expressing... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pagina’s
...Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is [20 easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,..."another and the same;" he does not exhibit a second [30 time the same elegances in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing... | |
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... vigorous; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently; but while he forces himself upon our esteem, we cannot refuse him to stand high in his own. 
