 ... each a bullock and a ram, and attempting to curse the army of the hero, in imitation of Balaam, and with the same success. Dryden himself is strongly tinctured with the taste of the times ; and those Dalilahs of the Town, to use his own expression,...  The Microcosm: A Periodical Work - Page 74edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...times ; and those Dalilahs of the Town, to use his own expression, are plentifully scattered throughout his works, esteemed in the present age for those passages...taste to that of his readers, and which have already passed the ordeal of unmerited censure. Nor is that narrowness of conception which f confines a work... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 432 pages
...in which he ventured to oppose his own taste to that of his readers, and which have already passed the ordeal of unmerited censure. Nor is that narrowness...portion of individuals, less reprehensible or less repugnant to the essential principles of poetry ; and of this defect innumerable instances occur in... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...times; and those Dalilahs of the town, to use his own expression, are plentifully scattered throughout his works, esteemed in the present age for those passages...portion of individuals, less reprehensible or less repugnant to the essential principles of poetry; and of this defect innumerable instances occur in... | |
 | George Canning - 1825 - 312 pages
...times ; and those Dalilahs of the Town, to use his own expression, are plentifully scattered throughout his works, esteemed in the present age for those passages...portion of individuals, less reprehensible or less repugnant to the essential principles of poetry ; and of this defect innumerable instances occur in... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1872 - 628 pages
...times ; and those Dalilahs of the Town, to use his own expression, are plentifully scattered throughout his works, esteemed in the present age for those passages...have already past the ordeal of unmerited censure. cited, with this difference, that in one instance we contemplate with regret the situation of an eminent... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1874 - 448 pages
...times ; and those Dalilahs of the Town, to use his own expression, are plentifully scattered throughout his works, esteemed in the present age for those passages...taste to that of his readers, and which have already passed the ordeal of unmerited censure. Nor is that narrowness of conception, which confines a work... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1874 - 446 pages
...times; and those Dalilahs of the Town, to use his own expression, are plentifully scattered throughout his works, esteemed in the present age for those passages...taste to that of his readers, and which have already passed the ordeal of unmerited censure. Nor is that narrowness of conception, which confines a work... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1874 - 452 pages
...times ; and those Dalilahs of the Town, to use his own expression, are plentifully scattered throughout his works, esteemed in the present age for those passages...taste to that of his readers, and which have already passed the ordeal of unmerited censure. Nor is that narrowness of conception, which confines a work... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1874 - 446 pages
...in which he ventured to oppose his own taste to that of his readers, and which have already passed the ordeal of unmerited censure. Nor is that narrowness...portion of individuals, less reprehensible or less repugnant to the essential principles of poetry ; and of this defect innumerable instances occur in... | |
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