 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...other Essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a nule detection of faults,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors or admirers of Shakspeare, in all their emulation of...baser metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk." The Colloquists in this Dialogue being all real persons, though concealed under feigned names, as Dryden... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors or admirers of Shakspeare, in all their emulation of...baser metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk." The Colloquists in this Dialogue being all real persons, though concealed under feigned names, as Dryden... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 601 pages
...curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors or admirers of Shakspeare, in all their emulation of...baser metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk." The Colloquists in this Dialogue being all real persons, though concealed under feigned names, as Dryden... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 pages
...curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors or admirers of Shakspeare, in all their emulation of...paraphrased this epitome of excellence, of having changed Dry den's gold for baser metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk." The Colloquists in this Dialogue... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed; nor can the Editors and Admirers of Shakespeare, in all their emulation of reverence, boast of much...baser metal, of lower value though of greater bulk. " " As to his learning ( says Johnson ), it will be difficult to prove that Dryden ever made any great... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...Demosthenes,fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet, not a dull collection of theorems, not a rude detection of faults,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...Demosthenes,fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...changed Dryden's gold for baser metal, of lower value tliough of greater bulk. " In this, and in all his other essays on the same subject, the criticism... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...Demosthenes, fades away belofe it. In a tew lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can...in all their emulation of reverence, boast of much mote than of having diffused and paraphrased this epitome of excellence — of having changed Dryden's... | |
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Longinus, on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed... 
