 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 Seiten
...any precedent age. Never did any author precipitate himself from such heights of thought,.to so low expressions, as he - often does. He is the very Janus...taxed in him, a less fault than the carelessness of Shakspeare, He does not well always; and, when he does, he is a true Englishman,—he knows not when... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 Seiten
...any precedent age. Never did any author precipitate himself from such heights of thought to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus...scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.1 Neither is the luxuriance, of Fletcher, which his friends have taxed in him, a less fault than... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 Seiten
...any precedent age. Never did any author precipitate himself from such heights of thought to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus...scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.1 Neither is the luxuriance of Fletcher, which his friends have taxed in him, a less fault than... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 Seiten
...Shakspeare writes (Dryden says) in many places below the dullest writers of ours or any precedent age. He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost every...begun to admire the one ere you despise the other. His plots are lame, and made up, many of them, of some ridiculous and incoherent story, which in one... | |
 | 1845 - 816 Seiten
...thought to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the .very Janus of poets; he wears al' most every where two faces ; and you have scarce begun to admire the one ere you despise the other." That the wit "of this age" is much more courtly, may, Dryden thinks, be easily proved by viewing the... | |
 | 1821 - 404 Seiten
...any precedent age. Never did any author precipitate himself from such heights of thought to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus...begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. " To speak justly of this whole matter, — it is neither height of thought that is discommended, nor... | |
 | 1821 - 408 Seiten
...any precedent age. Never did any author precipitate himself from such heights of thought to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus...begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. " To speak justly of this whole matter, — it is neither height of thought that is discommended, nor... | |
 | 1845 - 842 Seiten
...or any preceding age. Never did any author precipitate himself from such height of thought to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus...have scarce begun to admire the one ere you despise tire other." That the wit "of this age" is much more courtly, may, Dryden thinks, be easily proved... | |
 | 1845 - 816 Seiten
...any author precipitate himself from such height of thought to so low expressions, as he often docs. He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost every...begun to admire the one ere you despise the other." That the wit "of this age" is much more courtly, may, Dryden thinks, be easily proved by viewing the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 Seiten
...to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one ere you despise the other." That the wit " of this age" is much more courtly, may, Dryden thinks, be easily proved by viewing the... | |
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He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. 
