 | John Dryden - 1800 - 596 pages
...wild and lawless, that, like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders...Scaliger says of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiliore mdteria depressus. The scenes, which, in my opinion, most commend it, are those of argumentation and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800
...that rhyme is only an embroidery of sense, >•' to make that which is ordinary in itself, pass for 1 excellent with less examination. But certainly, that...characters and persons, be great and noble; otherwise (as Scaligcr says of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiJiore ruateria depressus. The scenes, which, in my... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
...shall naturally follow them, not they the rhyme ; the fancy then .gives leisure to the judgment t6 come in, which, seeing so heavy a tax imposed, is...of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiliore materid deprcssus. The scenes, which, in my opinion, most commend it, are those of argumentation and discourse,... | |
 | 1845
...winds up skilfully by applying all he has said to " a fit subject" — that is, an Heroic Play. For neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble, otherwise rhymed verse would be out of place, which, for the reasons assigned, is manifestly suited for tho utterance... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
...But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a ht subject be not chosen for it. Neither must the argument...otherwise, as Scaliger says of Claudian, the poet will be ignobitiore materid depressus. The scenes, which, in my opinion, most commend it, are those of argumentation... | |
 | 1845
...winds up skilfully by applying all he has said to " a fit subject " — that is, an Heroic Play. For neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble, otherwise rhymed verse would be out of place, which, for the reasons assigned, is manifestly suited for the utterance... | |
 | 1845
...winds up skilfully by applying all he has said to " a fit subject " — that is, an Heroic Play. For neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble, otherwise rhymed verse would be out of place, which, for the reasons assigned, is manifestly suited for the utterance... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 344 pages
...winds up skilfully by applying all he has said to " a fit subject"— that is, an Heroic Play. For neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble, otherwise rhymed verse would be out of place, which, for the reasons assigned, is manifestly suited for the utterance... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900
...through. But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being ill applied, so is it with verse, argument alone, but the characters and persons be...those of argumentation and discourse, on the result of 5 which the doing or not doing some considerable action should depend. But, my Lord, though I have... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900
...through. But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being ill applied, so is it with verse, 35 if a fit subject be not chosen for it. Neither must...argument alone, but the characters and persons be great an d noble ; otherwise (as Scaliger says of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiliore materid depressus.... | |
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But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a fit subject be not chosen for it. Neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble; otherwise (as Scaliger says of Claudian)... 
