 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...ROGER, EARL OF ORRERY.1 MY LORD, J. HIS worthless present was designed you, long before it was a Play, when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...light, there to be distinguished, and then either 1 Roger Boyle,- Earl of Orrery, fifth son of the great Earl of Cork, was born April 25, 1621; and died... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...you, long before it was a Play, when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over oneanother in the dark ; when the Fancy was yet in its first...light, there to be distinguished, and then either 1 Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, fifth son of the great Earl of Cork, was born April 25, 1621 ; and died... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...you, long before it was a Play, when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumblingover oncanothcr in the dark; when the Fancy was yet in its first work, V" moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...LORD, THIS worthless present was designed you long before it was a play ; when it was only a contused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the...light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, * This distinguished person was fifth son of Richard... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 pages
...ROGER, EARL OF ORRERY * MY LORD, THIS worthless present was designed you long before it was a play ; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment ; it was yours, * This celebrated person was fifth son of Richard... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...Holding the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment" Doge of Venice, " When it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment." Dryden's Dedication to the " Rival Ladies." supposing, as is much... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...Holding the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment." Doge of Venice. " When it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment." Dry dens Dedication to the " Rival Ladies." supposing, as is much... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1823 - 426 pages
...Holding the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment." Doge of Venice. " When it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...light, there to be distinguished, and then either, chosen or rejected by the judgment." Dry dens Dedication to the " Rival Ladies." supposing, as is much... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...over one another in the dark ; when le fancy v. as yet in its first work, moving the sleeping mages of things, towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either to be chosen or rejected, by the udgment.'- At that moment, he adds, '1 was in that anerni-ss of imagination, which, by over-pleasing... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1839 - 418 pages
...state of the mind, in the progress of composition, is described by DRYDEN, alluding to his work, " when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...either to be chosen or rejected, by the judgment." At that moment, he adds, " I was in that eagerness of imagination, which, t OO • ' by over-pleasing... | |
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This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there... 
