 I. cannot deny that he has his failings; but they are not so much in the passions themselves as in his manner of expression: he often obscures his meaning by his words, and sometimes makes it unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet that he distinguished...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Pàgina 261per John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1869 - 898 pàgines
...unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet that he distinguished not the blown and puffy style from true sublimity, but I may venture to maintain...violence of a catachresis. It is not that I would exclude the use of metaphors from passion, forLonginus thinks them necessary to raise it ; but to use... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1874 - 402 pàgines
...not say of fo £?rcat a Poet, that he diflinguifh'd not the blown puffy flile, from true fublimity; but I may venture to maintain that the fury of his fancy often tranfported him, beyond the bounds of Judgment, either in coyning of new words and phrafes, or racking... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Lucy Toulmin Smith - 1879 - 518 pàgines
...not fay of fo great a Poet, that he diftinguifli'd not the blown puffy ftile, from true fublimity ; but I may venture to maintain that the fury of his fancy often tranfported him, beyond the bounds of Judgment, either in coyning of new words and phrafes, or racking... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 544 pàgines
...unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet, that he distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity ; but I may venture to maintain,...racking words which were in use, into the violence of a cata- ' chresis. It is not that I would explode the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 548 pàgines
...unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet, that he distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity ; but I may venture to maintain,...racking words which were in use, into the violence of a cata- / chresis. It is not that I would explode the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 pàgines
...unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet, that he distinguished not the blown puffy style 25 from true sublimity ; but I may venture to maintain,...violence of a catachresis. It is not that I would 30 explode the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks 'em necessary to raise it : but to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 pàgines
...unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet, that he distinguished not the blown puffy style 25 from true sublimity ; but I may venture to maintain,...violence of a catachresis. It is not that I would 30 explode the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks 'em necessary to raise it : but to... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1909 - 582 pàgines
...not fay of fo great a Poet, that he diftinguifh'd not the blown puffy ftile, from true fublimity ; but I may venture to maintain that the fury of his fancy often tranfported him, beyond the bounds of Judgment, either in coyning of new words and phrafes, or racking... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 544 pàgines
...it unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet that he distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity; but I may venture to maintain...use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks 'em necessary to raise it: but to use 'em at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor, a simile,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1921 - 332 pàgines
...it unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet that he distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity; but I may venture to maintain...his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgF ment, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use into the... | |
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