 I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great...  The Living Age - Strana 1161876Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1921 - 472 str.
...as witness the following passage: "I cannot say he is everywhere alike. ... He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast." (Pp. 47-48.) "Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete." A little later, in 1674, Edward... | |
 | 1836 - 342 str.
...were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,...he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above tiie rest of the poets. — Quantum tenta soient inter viburna capitU.... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 str.
...were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,...he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter vlburna cupressi. The... | |
 | David Irving - 1836 - 432 str.
...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...great, when some great occasion is presented to him. * * * As for Johnson, to whose character I am now arriv'd, if we look upon him while he was himself... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 str.
...were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,...him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for wit, and did not raise himself as high above the rest of poets, ' Quantum lenta solent inter viburna... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 str.
...were he so, 1 should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,...him ; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for wit, and did not raise himself as high above the rest of poets, ' Quantum lenta tolent inter vilnirna... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 str.
...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat Perhaps I may not be more censured for doing and ds, or e'er we meet. Enter the Bastard. Bast. Oncemoreto-daywellmet.di...Sal. The king hath dispossess'd himself of us ; We tit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, ' Quantum... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 str.
...he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,...he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lento, soltnt inter viburna cupressi. s... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 str.
...he so, I should do him injury to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches ; his serious swelling into bombast. But ho is iilways great, when some peat occasion is presented to him."— DRYOEN'S Kssay of Dramatic I'oetry.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 str.
...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, bis serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great,...he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta sclent inter viburna capresii.' It... | |
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