 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have...clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is tempted to say many things which... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...smartness of the answer, and thesweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have...poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like :m high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have...in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, likean high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 pages
...smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have...clogs tied to it, lest it out-run the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant; he is tempted to say many things, which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 448 pages
...hitherto been oppressed. The same idea occurs also in the epistle dedicatory to Dryden's Rival Ladies : " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogi tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment" Trash, in the first... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 438 pages
...hitherto heen oppressed. The same idea occurs also in the epistle dedicatory to Dryden's Rival Ladies : " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogst rii.d to it, lest it outrun tht judgment" Trash, in the... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...understood as applying not merely to dramatic, but to every species of poetical composition. " But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have...clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is tempted to say many things which... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...understood as applying not merely to dramatic, but to every species of poetical composition. " But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have...clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is tempted to say many things which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...hitherto been oppressed. The same idea occurs also in the Epistle Dedicatory to Dryden's Rival Ladies: " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgement." Trash, in the... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have...clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is tempted to say many things which... | |
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But that benefit which I consider most in it, because I have not seldom found it, is, that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy : for imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to... 
