...him, for example, Dryden's accusation that he could be carried away 'beyond the bounds of judgement, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking...were in use, into the violence of a catachresis', ' ' and in its less successful manifestations was responsible for Dr Johnson's view that 'It is incident...

...he [Shakespeare] often obscures his meaning by his words, and sometimes makes it unintelligible ... the fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgement, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use into the...

...words, and sometimes makes it unintelligible. I will not say of so great a Poet, that he distinguish' d not the blown puffy stile, from true sublimity; but...transported him, beyond the bounds of Judgment, either in coyning of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use, into the violence of a Catachresis:...

...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,...were in use, into the violence of a catachresis.' Replace the assumption of involuntary excess by that of deliberate effect and it is a judgement to...

...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 judgement, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use into the...

...that the fury of his fancy often transported him, beyond the bounds of Judgement, either in coyning of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use, into the violence of a Catachresis: 'Tis not that I would explode the use of metaphors from passions, for Longinus thinks 'em necessary...

...Tragedy' published as a preface to the first of these (1679), he had already found fault with Shakespeare: 'the fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment', and in his constant use of metaphor and imagery he smelled 'a little too strongly of the buskin' (Vickers,...

...[Shakespeare's] fancy,' Dryden declares, 'ofren transporred him, beyond the bounds of Judgment, either in coyning of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use, into the violence of a Carachresis', this should not be raken as an argument for the toral elimination of meraphors in the...

...Though he voices great admiration for Shakespeare's "natural" poetic genius, Dryden also concludes that "the fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment" (Dryden, "Shakespeare's Characteristics," in his Preface to Troilus and Cressida), Pope excuses Shakespeare's...