 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...us, when he seems to fall dead before us ; as a poet in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the...might have undeceived us ; and we are all willing to favour the sleight, when the poet does not too grossly impose on us. They therefore who imagine these... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...us, when he seems to fell dead before us ; as a poet in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the...strongest witnesses, are wanting, which might have undieceived us ; and we are all willing to favour the sleight, when the poet does not too grossly impose... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...us, when he seems to fall dead before us; as a poet in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, / \. will please our imagination more than...the place **\ itself can please our sight. When we sec .death represented, we arc convinced it is hut fiction ; but when we hear it related, our eyes,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...us, when he seems to fall dead before us ; as a poet in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the...might have undeceived us; and we are all willing to favour the slight when the poet does not too grossly impose on us. They, therefore, who imagine these... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...us, when he seems to fall dead before us; as a poet in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the...might have undeceived us ; and we are all willing to favour the slight when the poet does not too grosslyimpose on us. They, therefore, who imagine these... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...us, when he seems to fall dead before us ; as a poet, in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the...might have undeceived us ; and we are all willing to favour the slight when the poet does not too grossly impose on us. They, therefore, who imagine these... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...us, when he seetm to fall dead hefore us ; as a poet, in the description of a heautiful garden, or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the...When we see death represented, we are convinced it is hut fiction ; hut when we hear it related, our eyes (the strongest wiinesses) are wanting, which might... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 770 pages
...This is said with relation to the drama. lix. " A poet in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the place itself can please our sight." Ixvi. " As we, who are a more sullen people, come to be diverted at our plays, so they (the French),... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...This is said with relation to the drama. lix. " A poet in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the place itself can please our sight." Ixvi. " As we, who are a more sullen people, come to be diverted at our plays, so they (the French),... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...us, when he seems to fall dead before us ; as a poet, in the description of a beautiful garden or a meadow, will please our imagination more than the...might have undeceived us; and we are all willing to favour the sleight, when the poet does not too grossly impose on us. tions. In the essay " Upon the... | |
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The words of a good writer, which describe it lively, will make a deeper impression of belief in us than all the actor can .insinuate into us, when he seems to fall dead before us ; as a poet in the description of a beautiful garden, or a meadow, will... 
