 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 ... - Page 261by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1717 - 418 pages
...makes it unintelligible. I will not iay of fo great a Poet, that he diftinguifh'd not the blown puify Stile, from true Sublimity ; 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 Phrafo, or racking... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...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,...often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment, cither in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words'which were in use into the violence of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...meaning, and sometimes rendered it unintelligible, by his expressions ; and that his fancy out-ran his judgment, "either in coining of new words and phrases,...were in use, into the violence of a catachresis." In vindication of our great dramatick poet, it may be observed, without any disrespect to this ingenious... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...meaning, and sometimes rendered it unintelligible, by his expressions ; and that his fancy out-ran his judgment, " either in coining of new words and phrases,...were in use, into the violence of a catachresis." In vindication of our great dramatick poet, it may be observed, without any disrespect to this ingenious... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...distinguish the blown puffy style from true sublimity." He would then have done so, and no mistake. " The fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of jndgment, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use, into the... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...distinguish the blown puffy style from true sublimity." He would then have done so, and no mistake. "The fury of his fancy often transported him beyond...racking words which were in use, into the violence of catachresis." His ears would have been jarred by Prospero's "polite conversation," so unlike what he,... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...distinguish the blown puffy style from true sublimity." He would then have done so, and no mistake. "The fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment, either in coiniug of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use, into the violence of catachrcsis."... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...distinguish the blown puffy style from true sublimity." He would then have done so, and no mistake. " The fury of his fancy often transported him beyond...racking words which were in use, into the violence of catachresis. His ears would have been jarred by Prospero's " polite conversation," so unlike what he,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...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...which were in use into the violence of a catachresis "To speak justly of this whole matter, it is neither height of thought that is discommended, nor pathetic... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...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...which were in use into the violence of a catachresis "To speak justly of this whole matter, it is neither height of thought that is discommended, nor pathetic... | |
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