 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...by the / meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the ' most easily digested : but we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it,...if every word were a pill to swallow : he gives us 3 These lines are in the eighth many times a hard nut to break our teeth, without a kernel for our... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...understood by the meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested : but we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow: he give* us 1 These lines are in the righth yfcneid. * This remark is unfounded; for the words arc—tt... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested : but we cannot read a verse, of Cleiveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow: he gives us 3 These lines are in the eighth ./Eneid. * This remark is unfounded ; for the words are — et longa... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of Cleiveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were...is this difference betwixt his satires and Doctor Donne'sy that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence ; the other gives... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of Cleiveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were...his satires and Doctor Donne's, that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence ; the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of Cleiveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were...his satires and Doctor Donne's, that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence ; the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...apprehensions, as the hest meat is the most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of Cleiveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were...to swallow : He gives us many times a hard nut to hreak our teeth, without a kernel for our pains. So that there is this difference hetwixt his satires... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...is the most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of CleiveUnd's without making a face at if, as if every word were a pill to swallow : He gives us many times a hard nut to hreak our teeth, without a kernel for our pains. So that there is this difference hetwixt hia satires... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 208 pages
...by the meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested : but we 20 cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it,...that there is this difference betwixt his Satires and 25 doctor Donne's ; that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence ;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...understood by the meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the I most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it,...his satires and Doctor Donne's, that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, * A mistake for eighth. t This remark is unfounded ; for the words... | |
| |
... we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow: he gives us many times a hard nut to break our teeth, without a kernel for our pains. 
