 | 1895 - 610 sivua
...astray. What Dryden, in one of his interesting critical prefaces says of himself, is true of Spenser ; " Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." There was in Spenser a facility for turning to account all material, original or borrowed, an incontinence... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 sivua
...it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and 1 No one now believes this. An excellent discussion of the subject will be found in Professor Lounsbury's... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 sivua
...about the same time he says elsewhere : "What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes, and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verso or to give them the other harmony of prose ; I have so long studied and practised both, that... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1899 - 200 sivua
...is true of Spenser: "Thoughts, such as they arc, come crowding in so fast v.] THE FAERIE QUEENE. 135 upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." There was in Spenser a facility for turning to account all material, original or borrowed, an incontinence... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 sivua
...it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the 30 other harmony of prose : I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit,... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1901 - 528 sivua
...felicity, gives the key of the whole matter. " Thoughts," he says in his preface to the Fables, " thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose" Since Turgot1 told France and the world that a new kind of poetry had come in the guise of Gessner's... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 sivua
...mind, the reader must determine." § II. " Thoughts," he says in the same place, " come crowding on so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to ^ject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1904 - 524 sivua
...crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verses, or to give them the other harmony of prose : I have...studied and practised both, that they are grown into a1 habit, and become familiar to me." 8 With these powers he entered upon his second career ; the English... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 sivua
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other har- 5 mony of prose. I have so long studied and practised both that they are grown into a habit and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 sivua
...want of ' vivacity in company ' see post, POPE, 264. 'In Satyr to his Muse, p. 4 ; ante, DRYDEN, 12. 3 'Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject.' Works, xi. 213. 4 ' Once in a quarter of a year he used to have the Marquis of Halifax, the Earls of... | |
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What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose... 
