 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 sivua
...; it affected me to see how much the stage was degenerated and polluted by the licentious times."1 In this preface also he justified himself from the...who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er wlll reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutus " of Ho1 Evelyn's Memoirs, 19th... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 sivua
...will gee. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over care ; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 't is, our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 sivua
...general observations he cuts short, by observing, that those who make them produce nothing of then- own, or only what is more ridiculous than any thing...excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutus " of Ho1 Evelyn's Memoirs, 19th June, 1668. race ; and, by a still more forced derivation, the line, " And... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 344 sivua
...will see. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over care ; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. is Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 sivua
...Prologue. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 sivua
...tutus ' — " Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an overcare : And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence." In 'England, then, there was as much need as in France of Boileau's critical gospel of Bon Sens ; and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 sivua
...will see. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with on over-core ; ty in word and ls Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 sivua
...; it affected me to see how much the stage was degenerated and polluted by the licentious times."1 In this preface also he justified himself from the...excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutus" of Ho1 Evelyn's Memoir*. 19th June, HiGS. race ; and, by a still more forced derivation, the line, " And... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 sivua
...fallacies which is true so far as it goes. In his Prologue to the " Royal Martyr " he says : — 44 And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. • • • . • But, when a tyrant for his theme he had, He loosed the reins and let his muse run... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 sivua
...which is true so far as it goes. In his Prologue to the " Royal Martyr" he says : — " And he whp servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. ***** But, when a tyrant for his theme he had, He loosed the reins and let his muse run mad, And, though... | |
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Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. 
