...learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence which...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but it is like the eloquence of one whom...

...Dryden who said of Cowley, whom he elsewhere calls " the darling of my youth,""* that he was " sunk in reputation because he could never forgive any conceit...way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small." 3 But the passages I have thus far cited as specimens of our poet's coarseness (for poet he surely...

...Dryden who said of Cowley, whom he elsewhere calls " the darling of my youth," 2 that he was " sunk in reputation because he could never forgive any conceit...way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small." 3 But the passages I have thus far cited as specimens of our poet's coarseness (for poet he surely...

...all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so 30 he knows when to leave off; a continence which is practised...poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and 35 small. There was...

...Maro, deliciae, decus et desiderium aevi sui." Fasti Oxon. ii. 209. Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : — ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small. . . . For this...

...Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and 35 small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for...

...which, in the generations that followed, have contributed to the almost total neglect of his poetry: "One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation,...small. There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted ; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All...

...far-fetched conceits. He did not write academic exercises as often as did Cowley, of whom Dryden said : " He could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept like a drag-net great and small." The poet in Crashaw often put the pedant to sudden flight; in a long-sustained, wearisome, and most...

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...sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also [10 an company beciuse he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great...