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
| John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...of plays. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, i» But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...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... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 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...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. . . * My son, advance Still in new impudence, new ignorance. Success let others teach, learn thou from... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...DRYDEN. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. DRYDEN. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. DRYDEN. Anger would indite Such woful stuff as I or Shadwell write. DRYDEN. Shadwell till death true... | |
| sir John Skelton - 1876 - 430 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...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 pages
.... . a ray of reason stole Half through the solid darkness of his soul.' So Dryden, Macflecknoe : ' Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval,' &c. P. 288, 1. 22. *« atlantic regions. The allusion is to Bailly's Letters on the subject of the... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...DRYDEN. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. DRYDEN. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. DRYDEN. Anger would indite Such woful stuff" as I or Shadwell write. DRYDEN. Shadwell till death true... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 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...majesty, Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the p'ain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Heywood and Shirley ' were but types of thee, Thou... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 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...the eye And seems designed for thoughtless majesty, ' Richard Flecknoe had died in 1678. He was an Irishman by birth. 460 THE ENGLISH POETS. Thoughtless... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pages
...stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, 20 But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. 25 Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty: Thoughtless... | |
| Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 348 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 npon the day. . . * My son, advance Still in new impudence, new ignorance. Success let others teach,... | |
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