 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...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 natural rescrvedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation ; and made them easy and pliant... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 474 pages
...Jonson's sons, and to have seen plays at the Blackfriars." The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English...insensibly, our way of living became more free; and the tire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...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...way of breeding, began first to display its force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours. This being granted to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 468 pages
...Jonson's sons, and to have seen plays at the Blackfriars." The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English...free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was beforfe stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force by... | |
 | 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
...one, so the escdleucy of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern, ny 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
...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...of breeding,' began first to display its force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours. This being granted to... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...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
...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...way of breeding, began first to display its force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gayety of our neighbours. This being granted to... | |
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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. Thus,... 
