| John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 550 páginas
...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's...admits no ray ; His rising fogs prevail upon the day." . . . Here stopped the good old sire, and wept for joy In silent raptures of the hopeful boy. VOL.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 páginas
...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day." 1. 10. It is related by Prior, etc. Christie points out that " there is obviously error and exaggeration... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 522 páginas
...designed for thoughtless majesty, ' Richard Flecknoe had died in 1678. lie was an Irishman by birth. «ftO Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain,...types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology. Kven I, a dunce of more renown than they, Was sent before but to prepare thy way, And coarsely clad... | |
| Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - 1902 - 432 páginas
...fabrick fills the eye 25 "And seems designed for thoughtless majesty, "Thoughtless as monarch oakes that shade the plain "And, spread in solemn state,...types of thee, "Thou last great prophet of tautology." 30 Here stopped the good old syre and wept for joy, • In silent raptures of the hopeful boy. All... | |
| 1905 - 404 páginas
...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval, But Shadwell's...Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems designed for thoughtless majesty— Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain, And, spread in... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 páginas
...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's...Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye And seems designed for thoughtless majesty, Richard Flecknoe had died in 1678. He was an Irishman by birth. Thoughtless... | |
| Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 318 páginas
...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's...Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye And seems designed for thoughtless majesty, Thoughtless as monarch oakes that shade the plain, And, spread in... | |
| George deF. Lord - 1963 - 608 páginas
...*> Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval, But Sh 's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail...the day. Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, 25 And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty; Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain, And,... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 páginas
...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. . . ' Here Dryden describes the preparations made by a king (of letters) to abdicate his throne in... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike thro', and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. . . ." The humorous shock of such lines as "Who stand confirmed in full stupidity," "But Shadwell never... | |
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