| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...metal, of lower value though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubject, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet;...not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous difiertation, where delight is mingled with inftruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...of lo ver ;value though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubjecl:, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude _detedtion of faults, which perhaps the ccnfor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detedtion of faults, which perhaps the cenfor was not abk to have committed; but a gay and vigorous diflertation, where delight is mingled with inftructibn, and where the author proves his right of judgement, by his power of performance. The different... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...lower value though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fub- 2 1 je6t, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet;...vigorous diflertation, where delight is mingled with inftruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement, by his power of performance. The different... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...value though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubject, the criticifhi of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet; not a dull collection...vigorous diflertation, where delight is mingled with inftruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement, by his power of performance. The different... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...metal, of lower value though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubjcft, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude deteftion of faults, which perhaps the cenfor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubjeS, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet;...not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous difiertation, where delight is mingled with inftruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...metal, of lower value though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubject, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet...vigorous diflertation, where delight is mingled with inftruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement, by his power of performance. The different... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...In this, and in all his other Essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...In this, and in all his other Essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
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