 This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Seite 113von John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 Seiten
...before it was an opus, when as Dryden has said concerning one of big own plays, " it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment," — good-natured readers, you who are willing to be pleased, and whom therefore it is worth pleasing,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 Seiten
...by Dryden, ' My work was dear to me, when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling one over another in the dark, — when the fancy was yet in...light, there to be distinguished, and then either to be chosen, or rejected, by the judgment.' " 11 " TRANQUILITY is essential to the man of letters.... | |
 | 1856 - 502 Seiten
...the selection of the pausing judgment." Doge of Venice, Act I. Scene 2. " When it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment." DRYDEN'S Dedication to the Rival Ladies. To call that, in the mild style of some of the reviewers,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1865 - 758 Seiten
...before it was an opus, when as Dryden has said concerning one of his own plays, " it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment," — good-natured readers, you who are willing to be pleased, and whom therefore it is worth pleasing,... | |
 | 1866 - 600 Seiten
...presented it, to give his own opinion now, " was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over each other in the dark, when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things toward the light." But in his last publication his opinions are perfected by more matured thought,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1867 - 494 Seiten
...progress of composition, is described by DRY.DEN, alluding to his work, " when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the...light, there to be distinguished, and then either to be chosen or rejected by the judgment ! " At that moment, he adds, " I was in that eagerness of... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1868 - 480 Seiten
...to this passage in Dryden's dedication of "The Rival Ladies" to the Earl of Orrery :—" A confused mass of thoughts tumbling over one another in the...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment." {Sir Walter Scott's edition of Dryden, ii. 113.) Byron knew how to appreciate the exhaufitless munificence... | |
 | Charles Bland Radcliffe - 1871 - 318 Seiten
...about which I may say what Dryden said concerning one of his own plays — "it was only a confused mass of thoughts tumbling over one another in the...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment." Nor can I look back with feelings of pride at later efforts! in the same direction — not even at... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 Seiten
...brine.) DRYDEN, alluding to his work, says, — When it was only a confused mass of thoughts tvmlling over one another in the dark ; when the fancy was yet in its first mark, moving the sleeping image* of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and there... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 Seiten
...brine.) DRYDEN, alluding to his work/ says, — When it was only a confused mass of thoughts twnibling over one another in the dark ; when the fancy was...towards the light, there to be distinguished, and there either to be chosen or rejected by the judgment. — Rival Ladies (1664). BYRON thus appropriates... | |
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