 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a duchess; which is not the case. Dr. & Johnson. Imagination, in a poet, is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs to it, lest it out-run the judgment. Dnjden. When nature's... | |
 | W F. Richards - 1856 - 198 pages
...of them ? GEAMMAE. (Three Hours allowed for this Paper.) 1. Paraphrase the following passage : — " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that it needs to have some check put upon it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse... | |
 | 1856 - 376 pages
...what is narrated or prophesied about each of them 1 GRAMMAR. 1. Paraphrase the following passage : " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that it needs to have some check put upon it lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...spaniel is again used by Dryden in his Dedication to the Earl of Orrery of the Rival Ladies (1664) : ' Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless,...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.' P. 29, 1. 5. paronomasia, a pun; called in humbler language by Dryden and his contemporaries, by Pope... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...Dryden in his Dedication to the Earl of Orrery of the Rival Ladies (1664): ' Imagination in a^poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like an highranging...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.' P. 29, l. 5. paronomasia, a pun ; called in humbler language by Dryden and his contemporaries, by Pope... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...spaniel is again used by Dryden in his Dedication to the Earl of Orrery of fhe Rival Ladies (1664) : ' Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless,...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.* P. 29, l. 5. paronomasia, a pun; called in humbler language by Dryden and his contemporaries, by Pope... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...spaniel is again used by Dryden in his Dedication to the Earl of Orrery of the Rival Ladies (1664) : ' Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless,...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.' P. 29, 1. 5. paronomasia, a pun; called in humbler language by Dryden and his contemporaries, by Pope... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 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... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1899 - 536 pages
...curbs and bridles the imagination, ' which is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like a high ranging spaniel it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; . . . that which most regulates the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...spaniel is again used by Dryden in his Dedication to the Earl of Orrery of the Rival Ladies (1664): ' Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless,...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.' P. 29, 1. 5. paronomasia, a pun; called in humbler language by Dryden and his contemporaries, by Pope... | |
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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... 
