| Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 sivua
...is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since hie earlier works more than a century has passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete." After the heroic plays of Dryden, The Mourning Bride of Congreve and the Venice Preserved of Otway... | |
| Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 sivua
...whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh ; and though since the publication of his works more than a century has elapsed, yet they have nothing uncouth or obsolete.*... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sivua
...bis own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...modes as may be easily noted. Dryden is always another ana the same ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form, nor appears to... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 sivua
...own. Everything is "icnaad bj^rim play nf imaga» nnd thf gprigbtlioes» of expreeeien. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since hia earlier works more than a century has passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete. " He who... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 sivua
...his own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...same " ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegancies in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 sivua
...his own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...same " ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegancies in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 sivua
...his own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...same"; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegancies in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness... | |
| John Dryden - 1912 - 436 sivua
...his own. Everything is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,...passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete." These qualities, so admirably described by Dr Johnson, shine with undiminished lustre in the preface... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 sivua
...play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feebliff~th~civigh all seems careless, there is nothing harsh ; and though,...is always another and the same, he does not exhibit 20 a second time the same elegances in the same form, nor appears to have any other than that of expressing... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 sivua
...Everything is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is [20 easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless,..."another and the same;" he does not exhibit a second [30 time the same elegances in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing... | |
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