 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
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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,...swelling into bombast. But he is always great when great occasion is presented to him. No man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1845 - 638 str.
...greatest of mankind. He i» many times flat mid insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches ; hi* serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him." DnrDzn'b Essay on Dramatic Poetry. pursuing; and these interruptions to our pleasure too frequenri;.... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 str.
...were he so, I should do him inlury to compare him with the greatest of mankind, He is many times flat, insipid: his comic wit degenerating into clenches,...presented to him: no man can say he ever had a fit sublect for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets .... 'Beaumont... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 str.
...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...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 viburna cupressi. It... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - 214 str.
...tone, finding Shakespeare both the most brilliant and the dullest of poets: "He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast" (Monk, 55). This objection appears throughout Dryden's essays, particularly in "The Grounds of Criticism... | |
 | Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price - 1998 - 216 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, as cypresses often do among bending osiers. 8 Shakespeare... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 str.
...he so I should do him an 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 viburna cupressi. From... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 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 viburna cupressi* The... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 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 vibuma cupressi. ' [as... | |
 | Laura Nash, Howard Stevenson - 2004 - 328 str.
...most comprehensive soul. ... He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into cliches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him. — Dryden on Shakespeare1 Competing scores and mixed records are inevitable... | |
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