 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 670 pages
...not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better, if they were not corrupted ; but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...Lucan. I need not say, their poets are of the same paste with their admirers. They affect greatness in all they write, but it is a bladdered greatness,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better, if they were not corrupted ; but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...Epigrams, but they would certainly set Virgil below Statins or Lucan. I need not say, their poets are of the same paste with their admirers. They affect... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better, if they were not corrupted ; but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...Epigrams, but they would certainly set Virgil below Statins or Lucan. I need not say, their poets are of the same paste with their admirers. They affect... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...These are above liking Martial or Owen's Epigrams, but they would certainly set Virgil below Statins or Lucan. I need not say, their poets are of the same paste with their admirers. They affect greatness in all they write, but it is a bladdered greatness,... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 408 pages
...not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better, if they were not corrupted : but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...They affect greatness in all they write : but it is a bladclered greatness, like that of the vain man whom Seneca describes — an ill habit of body, full... | |
 | Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1806 - 414 pages
...not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better, if they were not corrupted ; but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...below -Statius or Lucan. I need not say their poets arc of the same taste with their admirers. Thev affect tt greatness in all they write : but it is a... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better, if they were not corrupted ; but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...ostentatious sentences, and the true sublime. These are above * This river, which flows past Madrid, is distinguished by the splendour of its bridge, and the scantiness... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...not of those \vho are bribed by a party, and know better, if they were not corrupted ; but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...ostentatious sentences, and the true sublime. These are above * This river, which flows past Madrid, is distinguished by the splendour of its bridge, and the scantiness... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better if they were not corrupted) ; but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...certainly set Virgil below Statius or Lucan. I need not their poets are of the same taste with their admirers. They affect greatness in all they write, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better if they were not corrupted) ; but I mean a company of warm young men, who are not yet arrived...These are above liking Martial or Owen's epigrams j but they would certainly set Virgil below Statins or Lucan. I need not sav «be ir poet« are of... | |
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There are a middle sort of readers, (as we hold there is a middle state of souls,) such as have a farther insight than the former, yet have not the capacity of judging right ; for I speak not of those who are bribed by a party, and know better, if they... 
