 Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some...  Andrew Marvell - Pàgina 21per Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 241 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pàgines
...world ; to the end that well-meaning persons may not 1 Thomas Shadwell. V. Dryden's Mac-Flecknoe. " Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years, &c. Q. 102 SPECTATOR. [No. 36. be imposed upon by cheats, I would desire my readers, when they meet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pàgines
...an antipathy to Shadwell; of which he has given proof in his Mac-Flecknoe, where he says, " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." But all we learn hence is, that a satirist does not pay regard to truth when it interferes with the... | |
 | James Hannay - 1855 - 250 pàgines
...Shadwell succeed to the throne of Flecknoe, the most abject of bards, he makes Dulness Bay : — " Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.'1 Pope was a follower of Dryden's, and formed himself upon him : it was Dryden who gave to that... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pàgines
...with wit, Cried, " 'Tis resolved ; for Nature pleads, that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell, alone, my perfect image bears, Mature in...some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates1 into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 pàgines
...with wit, Cried, "Tis resolved ; for nature pleads, that he Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...years : Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stand* confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pàgines
...increased to JE300, was conferred on Thomas Shadwell, whom Dryden thus satirized in his "Mac Flccknoc :'' The rest to some faint 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 Shndwell's... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pàgines
...with wit, Cried, " 'Tis resolved ; for Nature pleads, that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell, alone, my perfect image bears, Mature in...tender years : Shadwell, alone, of all my sons, is fie, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pàgines
...nature pleads, that he Should only rule who most resemhles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image hears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirnTd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pàgines
...increased to £300, was conferred on Thomas Shadwell, whom Dryden thus satirized in his " Mac Flecknoe :" The rest to some faint 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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 356 pàgines
...had elevated Shadwell to the highest pinnacle in the realm of nonsense, making Flecknoe exclaim : ' Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike thro', and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's... | |
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