 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 sivua
...it, was written on the fame fubjeft as his Elfrid or the Fair Inconftant , which he there calls, ' An unprun'd wildernefs of fancy, with here ' and there...the leaves ; but without ' any fruit of judgment.' — He likewife mentions it as a folly, having began and finifhed Elfrid in a week ; and both the difference... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1759 - 608 sivua
...fenfe. •It is founded on the fame fubject with his tragedy of Elfrid, which he called, * an unpruned wildernefs of fancy, with « here and there a flower...the leaves; but without * any fruit of judgment.' He was a man fufceptible of love, in its fublimeft fenfe; as may be feen by his letters, and in a poetical... | |
 | 1759 - 606 sivua
...fubjcft with his tragedy of Elfrid, which he called, ' an unpruned wildernefs of fancy, with *'here arid there a flower among the leaves ; but without * any fruit of judgment.' He was a man fufceptible of love, in its fublimeft fenfe ; as may be feen by his letters, and in a... | |
 | Several Hands - 1759 - 602 sivua
...with, bis tragedy of Elfnd, whjch. he called, * an .\jnpirune4 wijde^nefs of fancy, with ' here arid there a flower among the leaves; -. but without * any fruit of judgment.' He was a man fufceptible of love, 4n its fuUimcft fenfe ; as may be feen by his letters, and in a poetical... | |
 | Aaron Hill - 1760 - 460 sivua
...fame fubject with his tragedy of Elfrid, the employ only of one week, which he called, ' an unpruned ' wildernefs of fancy, with here and there a flower...among * the leaves; but without any fruit of judgment. That year he met with the greateft fhock, that affliction ever gave him ; in the lofs of one of the... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1764 - 396 sivua
...than a Week, on wiiich Account it is no Wonder that it fliouM be, as he himfelf has deferibed it, " An unprun'd " Wildernefs of Fancy, with here " and...the " Leaves ; but without any Fruit " of Judgment." — This, however, ne alter'd, and buught on the Stage again about twenty Years afterwards, under the... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 sivua
...is no wonder that it should be, as he himself has described it, " an unpruned wilderness of fan" cy, with here and there a flower " among the leaves ; but without " any fruit of judgment." This, however, he altered, and brought on the stage again about twenty years afterwards, under the... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 sivua
...is no wonder that it should be, as he himself has described it, " an unpruned wilderness of fan" cy, with here and there a flower " among the leaves ; but without " any fruit of jndgment." This, however, he ;:ltereJ, and brought on the stage again about twenty years afterwards,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 sivua
...that it should be, as he himself has described it, " an unpruned wilderness of fancy, with here mnd there a flower among the leaves ; but without any fruit of judgment." This, however, he altered, and brought on the stage again about twenty years afterwards, under the... | |
 | 1814 - 540 sivua
...account it is no wonder that it should be, as be' himself has described it, "an unpruued wilderness of fancy, with here and there a flower among the leaves ; but without any fruit . of judgment." This, however, he altered, and brought on the stage again about twenty years afterwards, under the... | |
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This play was composed in little more than a week, on which account it is no wonder that it should be, as he himself has described it, " an unpruned wilderness of fancy, with here and there a flower among the leaves; but without any fruit of judgment. 
