 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta sclent inter riburna cupressi. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eaton say, that there was... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 páginas
...times flat and insipid ; his comic -wit degenerates into clenches, his serious swelling into bombat-t. But he is always great when some great occasion is...him ; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for Ma wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets. " Quant am lenta solent inter... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 páginas
...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and inispid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches; his serious swelling...— " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi." There is, perhaps, only one other English poet of equal merit with Shakspere, our great and glorious... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 páginas
...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, "As the tall cypress towers above the shrubs." ' The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton .gay,... | |
 | Allan H. Gilbert - 1967 - 724 páginas
...the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,72 his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lento, solent inter vibuma cupressi.™ The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton say that there... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 páginas
...do him inlury to compare him with the greatest of mankind, He is many times flat, insipid: his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...presented to him: no man can say he ever had a fit sublect for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets .... 'Beaumont... | |
 | Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price - 1998 - 216 páginas
...do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, as cypresses often do among bending osiers. 8 Shakespeare is up to what is great. (According to Dryden,... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 páginas
...him an injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...poets: Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. From Wordsworth's The Poet's Epitaph. But who is he with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown?... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 páginas
...do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...poets, quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi* The consideration of this made Mr Hales of Eton* say that there was no subject of which any poet ever... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 páginas
...do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...above the rest of poets, quantum lenta solent inter vibuma cupressi. ' [as cypresses often do among the bending osiers) 'The consideration of this made... | |
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I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when... 
