 Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years : Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he. Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 434by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...experiment is not ignoble, and tuciferous «nough, as shewing a new way to produce a volatile salt. Bo vie. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Druden. It contracts it, preserving the eye from being injured by too vehement and lucid an object,... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pages
...of dullness. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray. A modern critic, reviewing the comedies of this author, gives a judgment, which will be startling to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...stupidity. The rest to some faint meaningmake pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some heams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and...rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fahric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty : Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...meaning make pretence. But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may foil, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's...Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty ! Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...genuine night admits no ray ; His rising fogs prevail upon1 the day. Besides, his goodly fabric2 fills the eye, And seems designed for thoughtless majesty... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...genuine night admits no ray ; His rising fogs prevail against the day. Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...genuine night admits no ray ; His rising fogs prevail against the day. Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But ShadwelPs genuine night admits no ray; His rising fogs prevail against the day. Besides, his goodly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence ; But Shadwell never deviates into sense. n bladders, Thc< many Hummers in a sea of glory ; But fw beyond my depth : my high-blown p ShadweU'a genuine night admits no ray; His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence ; But Shadwell never deviates into sense. We sp P3 admita no ray; His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And... | |
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