 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets, ' Quantum lenta soient inter viburna cupressi.' The consideration of this made Mr. Hales... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...many times fiat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say he ever bad a tit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets,... | |
 | Allan H. Gilbert - 1967 - 724 pages
...times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,72 his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lento, solent inter vibuma cupressi.™ The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton say that there... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pages
...many times flat, insipid: his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast, But he is always great, when some great occasion is...presented to him: no man can say he ever had a fit sublect for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets .... 'Beaumont... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...times flat and insipid; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is...poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. It is to be lamented that such a writer should want a commentary; that his language should become obsolete,... | |
 | Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price - 1998 - 216 pages
...many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is...then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, as cypresses often do among bending osiers. 8 Shakespeare is up to what is great. (According to Dryden,... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 pages
...many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is...poets: Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. From Wordsworth's The Poet's Epitaph. But who is he with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown?... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pages
...many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is...poets, quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi* The consideration of this made Mr Hales of Eton* say that there was no subject of which any poet ever... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is...above the rest of poets, quantum lenta solent inter vibuma cupressi. ' [as cypresses often do among the bending osiers) 'The consideration of this made... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2006 - 561 pages
...many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is...poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi [As much (taller) as cypresses usually are, among pliant viburnums.] The consideration of this made... | |
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I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when... 
