 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...spite of all his pride, a secret shame " Invades his breast at Shakspeare's honour'd name : " Aw?d when he hears his godlike Romans rage, " He, in a just despair, would quit the stage." " I hope I need not to explain myself, that I have not copied my author servilely. Words and phrases... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...spite of all his pride, a secret shame " Invades his breast at Shakspeare's honour'd name : " Aw'd when he hears his godlike Romans rage, " He, in a just despair, would quit the stage." " I hope I need not to explain myself, that I have not copied my author servilely. Words and phrases... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...spite of all his pride, a secret shame " Invades his breast at Shakspeare's honour'd name : " Aw'd when he hears his godlike Romans rage, " He, in a just despair, would quit the stage." " I hope I need not to explain myself, that I have not copied my author servilely. Words and phrases... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 pages
...secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name ; And when he hears his godlike Roman rage, ; . He in a just despair would quit the stage ; And, to an age less polish'd, more unskill'd Would with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he dares not strive, He would... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...despair, would quit the stage; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does, with disdain, the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 384 pages
...Shakspeare's, and particularly in those two remarkable lines in his Prologue to " Aurenge-Zebe :" " And when he hears his godlike Romans rage, He in a just despair would quit the Stage ;" And in the verses to Sir Godfrey Kneller, " Shakspeare, thy gift, I place before my sight : With awe, I... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...eorreet of hisi But, spite of all his pride, a seeret ihame Invades bis breast at Shakspeare's 'aered name: Awed, when he hears his godlike Romans rage, He, in a just despair, would quit the stagei And, to an age less poliihed, more unskilled, Doos, with disdain, the foremost honours yield.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...secret shame Invades his breast at Shakspeare's sacred name : Awed, when he hears his godlike Homans rage, He, in a just despair, would quit the stage ; And, to an age less polished, more unskilled, Doe:, with disdain, the foremost honours yield. But, notwithstanding this... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 430 pages
...secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed, when he hears his god-like Roman's rage, He, in a just despair, would quit the stage,...unskill'd, Does, with disdain, the foremost honours yield. Shakespeare. We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 430 pages
...secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed, when he hears his god.like Roman's rage, He, in a just despair, would quit the stage,...polish'd, more unskill'd, Does, with disdain, the foremost honour! yield. Shakespeare. We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and... | |
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What verse can do he has perform'd in this, Which he presumes the most correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at... 
