 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...more of it, l have no great reason to complain. What judgment l had increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...harmony of prose. I have so long studied and practised hoth, that they arc grown into a hahit, and hecome familiar to me. ln short, though l may lawfully... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...more of it, 1 have no great reason to complain. What judgment 1 had increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, thai my only difficulty is to choose or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Christianity - 1848 - 638 pages
...of Dryden, when speaking of his old age : " What judgment I had increases, rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." No man among us ever had such funeral obsequies. He was borne from the seat of government to his grave,... | |
 | George Daniel - London (England) - 1852 - 328 pages
...vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul — What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject." — Who was the poetical father of Shakespeare is yet a mystery. What happy age shall hail the advent... | |
 | George Daniel - English poetry - 1852 - 342 pages
...vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul — What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject." — Who was the poetical father of Shakespeare is yet a mystery. What happy age shall hail the advent... | |
 | George Daniel - London (England) - 1852 - 334 pages
...vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul—What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject."—Who was the poetical father of Shakespeare is yet a mystery. What happy age shall hail the... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - Poets laureate - 1853 - 658 pages
...to complain. What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they arc, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to cbuse or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...What judgment I had inereases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come erowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to...choose or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to givs them the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and practised hoth, that they are grown... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...but I am sure it has devoured some part of his good manners and civility. (Préface des Fables.) 2. Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difBculty is to chuse or to reject; to run them into verses or to give them the other harmony of prose.... | |
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What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose... 
