| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...so the excellency of hie manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern 1 ,' first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire .of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first...and heavy spirits of the English from their natural rescrvedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation ; and made them easy and pliant... | |
| England - 1845 - 816 pages
...the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,... | |
| English literature - 1823 - 616 pages
....excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first wakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened thenr from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse.... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...as the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so the escdleucy of his manners reformed the other. as those of the body to meir perfection. Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, aud pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our >vay of Jiving became more free ; and... | |
| Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,'... | |
| England - 1845 - 816 pages
...forgave the ohe, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great л pattern, first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservcdness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant... | |
| John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,... | |
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