 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so the excellency of bis 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, began... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1883 - 494 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 awakened...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled Bunder a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 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 awakened...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, Walter Scott - English literature - 1883 - 496 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 awakened...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, Walter Scott - English literature - 1883 - 494 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 awakened...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,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 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 awakened...the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation,' and made them easy and... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 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 awakened...the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so th? excellency bf his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened...the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1895 - 314 pages
...the excellency of his nature forgave the one, so the excellency of his manners a reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened...spirits of the English from their natural reservedness.' With every allowance for adulation, there can be no doubt that Dryden iu a considerable measure believed... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 420 pages
...of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the 15 dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which 20 was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,... | |
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The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation ; and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. 
