 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...pleasant and surprising; and those first thoughts of his, contrary to the Latin proverb, were not always the least happy ; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise...such as could not easily enter into any other man." The effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was, that to Shakespeare's monster... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...pleasant and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his contrary to the Latin proverb, were not always the least happy, and as his fancy was quick, so likewise...were such as could not easily enter into any other Tt man. The effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was, that to Shakespeare's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pages
...pleasant and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his, contrary to the Latin proverb, were not always the least happy, and as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. lie borrowed not of any other, and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...pleasant and surprising; and those first thoughts of his, contrary to the Latin proverb, were not always the least happy; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise...such as could not easily enter into any other man." About this time, in 1673, Dryden seems to have had his quiet much disturbed by the success of "The... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 pages
...and surprising : aud those first thoughts of his, contrary to the old Latin proverb, were not always the least happy. And as his fancy was quick, so likewise...into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious, and he corrected his own writings much more severely than those of another man, bestowing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...pleasant and surprising ; and those first thonghts of his, contrary to the Latin proverh, were not always the least happy ; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise...such as could not easily enter into any other man." The effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was, that to Shakspeare's monster,... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 pages
...and surprising ; aud those first thoughts 'vf his, contrary to the old Latin proverb, were not always the least happy. And as his fancy was quick, so likewise...into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious; and he corrected his own writings much more severely than those of another man, bestowing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 486 pages
...and surprising : and those first thoughts of his, contrary to the old Latine Proverb, were not always the least happy. And as his fancy was quick so likewise...into any other Man. His Corrections were sober and judicious : and he corrected his own writings much more severely than those of another Man, bestowing... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1873 - 354 pages
...proposed to him on which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products...such as could not easily enter into any other man.' The commendations of his original and pregnant genius read strangely out of place appended to such... | |
 | William Hugh Logan - 1874 - 564 pages
...and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his, contrary to the old Latin proverb, were not always the least happy. And as his fancy was quick, so likewise...into any other man. His corrections were sober and judicious, and he corrected his own writings much more severely than those of another man, bestowing... | |
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Latin proverb, were not always the least happy ; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. He borrowed not of any other ; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man. 
