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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... "
The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First ... - Page 593
by John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...only difflculty is to ctiuse or to reject; to run them into verses or to give them the olher barmony of prose. I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into habit and become familiar to me. C'est avec ces forces qu'il entra dans sa seconde carrière; la constitution...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 720 pages
...part of his good manners and civility. (Préface des Fables.') 2. Thoughts, such as they are, corne crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject; to run them into verses or to give them thé olher harmony of prose. I hâve so...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 442 pages
...but I am sure it bas devoured some part of bis good manners and civility. (Préface des Fables.) 2. Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject ; to run them into verses or to give them the other hanaony of prose. I bave so...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and ...

John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; iuto verso, or to give them the other harmony of prose, I have so long studied and practised both,...
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Among My Books

James Russell Lowell - New England - 1898 - 396 pages
...at about the same time he says elsewhere : " What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes, and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that ray only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden

John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...more 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...verse or to give them the other harmony of prose. 1 have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 586 pages
...of verse, a slave to his idea, with that abundance of thoughts which is the sign of true genius : ' Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verses, or to give them th? other harmony of prose : 1 have so...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 2

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...of verse, a slave to his idea, with that abundance of thoughts which is the sign of true genius : ' Thoughts, such as they are. come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verses, or to give them the other harmony of prose : 1 have so...
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The Traditions of the Syriac Church of Antioch Concerning the Primacy and ...

Cyril Beham Benni - Popes - 1871 - 366 pages
...Mansel's book on the subject. " Thoughts," says Dryden, and every 187 thoughtful man may say the same, " come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject." " Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought."...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 472 pages
...crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verses, or to give them the other harmony of prose : I have...they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to me."3 With these powers he entered upon his second career; the English constitution and genius opened...
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