 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...poets, and especially Tasso; but we may apply to him what Dry den so happily said of Ben Jonson — " He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him." The flowers which he transplants from the sunny gardens of Italy gain new bloom and fragrance by being... | |
 | David Irving - 1841 - 448 pages
...historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one...With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Home to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...historian among the Roman authors of those times whom be has not translated in Bejanus and Catiline. =? cE _ izx8 ! e C& P j) } ǜ4 =K5 Ѧ 9 ho fears not to be taxed by any law. Ho invades authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pages
...translated in Bejanus and Catiline. But he has done hie robberies во openly, that one may see ho fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors...victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represented old Rome to us in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pages
...of what Dryden says of Ben Jonson's plagiarisms: — " He has done his robberies so openly, that we see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades...authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in any other poet is only victory in him." Jeffrey's criticisms on Wordsworth in the Edinburgh eview probably... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...may see he fears not to he taxed hy any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would he theft in other poets, is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he 00 represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...among the Roman authors of those times, whom he has not translated in ' Sejanus ' and ' Catiline." But he has done his robberies so openly, that one...other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of those writers he so represents old Home to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that, if one... | |
 | 1845 - 842 pages
...those times, whom he has not translated in ' Sejanus ' and ' Catiline.' But he has done his robberiea so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed...other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of those writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that, if one... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 pages
...among the Roman authors of those times, whom he has not translated in ' Sejanus ' and ' Catiline.' But he has done his robberies so openly, that one...other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of those writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that, if one... | |
 | Bits - 1847 - 88 pages
...historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he had not translated in " Sejanus " and " Catiline." But he has done his robberies so openly, that one...victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represented Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written... | |
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But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him. 
