 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 trang
...times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he' is always great, when some great occasion...above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter .eibwma cupressi. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton -ixy, that there was no subject... | |
 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 trang
...flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches ; . his serious swelling. into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him.. Great he may be justly called, as the extent and force of hi&natunil genius both, for Tnigt-dy cc 2... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 trang
...degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when - 1 nuc great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say,...above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburoa cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary ; that his language... | |
 | John Aikin - 1814 - 662 trang
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is sented to him. No man can say, he ever had a fit subject...himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta soient inter viburna cupressi." Besides his plays, Shakespear published in 1594 two poems, entitled... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 trang
...flat and msipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. Bnt be is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say, he ever had a flt subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, '• Quantum... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 trang
...times flat and insiped ; his comic wit degenerating- into clenches ; his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to n'1In'' PHTDEN'S Essay on Dramatic Poetry. -cur, on occasions, when we would least wish to meet with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 trang
...flat " and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into " clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But " he is always great when some great occasion...poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary; that his language should become... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 trang
...flat " and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into " clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But " he is always great when some great occasion...poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary; that his language should become... | |
 | 1845 - 816 trang
...times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches ; his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is...above the rest of poets, ' Quantum lenta solent Inter vibuma cupre»si.' " The consideration of this made Mr Hales of Eton say, that there was no subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 trang
...times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say, he ever had a lit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta... | |
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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 when... 
