 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pages
...read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the...him : no man can say, he ever had a fit subject for VOL. x. o his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 352 pages
...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, .his serious swelling...did not then raise himself as high above the rest oi poets, Quantum, lento, solent inter viburna cupressi. or his sentiments obscure. But it is vain... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...read nature : he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the...above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburim cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary ; that his language... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...poets, (Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton say, that there was no subject of which any poet ever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clinches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburnacupre&si.' ' It is to be lamented that such a writer should want a commentary; that his language... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clinches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta sclent inter viburna cupressi."' It is <o be lamented that such a writer should want a commentary ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clinches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenla sclent inter viburna cupressi." It is to be lamented that such a writer should want a commentary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...greatest of mankind. lie is many times flat and insipid ; his comie wit degenerating into clenches, hiw serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great...wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the reit of poets, Quantam lenta soient inter viburoa cnprensi.' " It is to be lamented, that such a writer... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 882 pages
...injury to compare him with the' greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi." Besides his plays, Shakspeare published in 159t two poems, entitled, Venus and Adonis, and Lucrece... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of the poets, — Quantum lenta sclent inter viburna capitis. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales,... | |
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I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when... 
