 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 sivua
...story of St. Catherine. In the prologue to this, he extended Horace's " serpit humi tutus " into " He who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence." He knew very well that he was often pleasing his audiences with ranted nonsense in heroic strain. Porphyrius... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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. Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, ...Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sivua
...pension. DRYDEN. 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. DRYDEN. O fortunate young man ! at least your lays Are next to his, and claim the second praise. DRYDEN.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 sivua
...DRYDEN. 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. DRYDEN. O fortunate young man ! at least your lays Are next to his, and claim the second praise. DRYDEN.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 706 sivua
...story* of St. Catherine. In the prologue to this, he extended Horace's " serpit humi tutus " into " He who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence." He knew very well that he was often pleasing his audiences with ranted nonsense in heroic strain. Porphyrius... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1885 - 332 sivua
...But Dryden in his plays (not in his .other poems) boldly translated Horace's serbit humi tutus, into, "He who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence." The particular excellence attained by flying out of sight of sense is burlesqued in the Duke of Buckingham's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 674 sivua
...that those who make them produce nothing of their own, or only what is more ridiculous than anything they reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by...sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence," ia justified from the " serpii }vwmi iuius" of Horace ; and, by a still more forced derivation, the... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1887 - 400 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." K In England, then, there was as much need as in France of Boileau's critical gospel of Bon Sens ;... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 sivua
...fallacies which is true so far as it goes. In his Prologue to the " Royal Martyr " he says : — " 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 mad, And, though... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 388 sivua
...fallacies which is true so far as it goes. In his Prologue to the " Royal Martyr " he says : — " And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. 1 Parallel of Poetry and Painting. 2 " nya seulement la scene de Ventidius et d'Antoine qni est digne... | |
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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. 
