| John Dryden - 1868 - 554 str.
...Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwefi's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail...plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Hey wood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology. Even I, a dunce... | |
| 1871 - 910 str.
...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1897 - 764 str.
...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. — 20 Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's...the day. Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye 25 And seems designed for thoughtless majesty,* Thoughtless as monarch oaks that =hade the plain And,... | |
| A. Hoppe - 1871 - 504 str.
...allowing him no lucid intervals. — Dryden, Mac-Flecknoe: 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. — South, Sermons, 1744, vol. VIII, p. 403: Such is the nature of man, that it requires lucid intervals;... | |
| 1872 - 742 str.
...most brilliant manner throughout the poem. He tells us : 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. He tells us that lambent dulness played about his face, and that loads of Sfiadwell choked the way.... | |
| George Herbert - 1872 - 730 str.
...Shadwell choked the way. And Flecknoe, in addressing his adopted son, rises to this climax — Haywood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great...of tautology. Even I, a dunce of more renown than thejr, Was sent before but to prepare iky way. Perhaps Dryden's genius was neve1' air — The Cutting... | |
| John Dryden - 1874 - 740 str.
...make pretence, i» 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...spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Heywood and Shirley1 were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology. so Even I, a dunce of more renown... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 str.
...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. . . * My son, advance Still in new impudence, new ignorance. Success let others teach, learn thou from... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 str.
...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. DRYDEN. 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. DRYDEN. Anger would indite Such woful stuff as I or Shadwell write. DRYDEN. Shadwell till death true... | |
| sir John Skelton - 1876 - 430 str.
...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...plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. These are the closing lines of the Dunciad: — She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold, Of... | |
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