 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pàgines
...shone: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakespeare scarce effac'da line. Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, The humbler muse of comedy require. But in known images... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pàgines
...shone; But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakspeare scarce eifac'da line. Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, — the art to blot. Some doubt if equal pains or equal fire The humbler Mnse of comedy require. But in known images of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pàgines
...: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And s fluent Shakespeare scarce effac'da line. Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, The * humbler Muse of comedy require. But in known images... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pàgines
...: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And ' fluent Shakespeare scarce erlar'da line. Fv'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blpt. Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, Tlie * humbler Muse of comedy require. But in known... | |
 | 1821 - 734 pàgines
...avowed opinion of some of the best writers of the present and past ages. What says Mr. Pope? " Immortal Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot." Many a reader of Dryden is tempted to exclaim, , " So thick the beauties and the faults appear, Those... | |
 | 1871 - 1202 pàgines
..." Bnt Olway failed to polish or refine, And fluent Shakespeare scarce erased a line J Even copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art,— the art to blot." Tet we hope in another edition to miss such words as " fisticuffs," " bumptious," " rollicking," "scrimmage,""... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...shone : But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shnkspeare scarce effac'da line. Ev'n copious itt Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, The humbler Muse of comedy require. But in known images... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pàgines
...shone : But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakspeare searee effae'da line. Ev'n eopious unseen, as lamps in sepulehres ; Like Eastern kings, a lazy state the Some doubt, if equal pains, or equal fire, The humbler Muse of eomedy require. But in known images... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pàgines
...shone: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakspeare scarce effaced a line. E'en copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. The stage how loosely does Astraa tread, Who fatrly puts all characters to bed I And tdle Cibler, how... | |
 | 1822 - 608 pàgines
...Otway failM to polish or refine, And fluent Shakspeare scarce effac'da line : . ,,. . E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art, the art to blot." POPE. o persons of literary taste and riuiination it is a pursuit of no leasing or uninstmctive nature... | |
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Show'd us that France had something to admire. Not but the Tragic spirit was our own, And full in Shakespear, fair in Otway shone: But Otway fail'd to polish or refine, And fluent Shakespear scarce effac'da line. 
