| Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 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...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... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 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 Review... | |
| 1853 - 774 pages
...historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in ' Sejanus' or ' Catiline.' But he has done his robberies so openly, that one...victory in him. With the spoils of these writers, he so represent* old Home to us, in its riles, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 434 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 Review,... | |
| George Murray - 1853 - 50 pages
...was a learned plagiary of all the ancient writers. Tou track Mm everywhere in their snow." And again: "He invades authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him." In the same manner La Bruyere said, " que Despreaux paroissoit crier les pensfes d'autruy." The genius... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...existence before my view, and sounds like a sentence of vanity on the things of this world, pronounced by would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of those writers he so represented old Rome to us in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of... | |
| 1855 - 834 pages
...not translated in Bejanus and Catiline. But he has done his robberies to openly that one may «ее he fears not to be taxed by any law. He Invades authors like a monarch, and what the following stanzas, from his sketch of the Poet's Elysium. A Paradise on earth ie found, Though... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 may see he fears not to be taxed by any l:nv. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...historian among the Kpman authors of those times whom he has not translated in " Sejanus" and " Catiline." But he has done his robberies so openly, that one...would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. If there was any fault in his language, it was that he weaved it too closely and laboriously, in his... | |
| William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 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...be theft in other poets, is only victory in him." Now here we have the triumph, the pure and unsullied triumph of genius, which does but assert its own... | |
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