 It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought forth his verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking.  Poetaster - Page xcby Ben Jonson - 1905 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1907 - 476 pages
..."vicious language," which is "vast and gaping, swelling and irregular." Virgil is to be commended, who "brought forth his verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking."* Euripides is to be commended, who "had in three days brought forth but three verses." What shall survive... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...there never come(s) from them one Sense worth the life 15 of a Day. A Rymer and a Poet are two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil that he brought forth his verses like a Beare, and after form'd them with licking. Scaliger the Father writes it of him, that he made a quantitie... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...there never come(s) from them one Sense worth the life '5 of a Day. A Rymer and a Poet are two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil that he brought forth his verses like a Beare, and after form'd them with licking. Scaliger the Father writes it of him, that he made a quantitie... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Authors, English - 1641 - 146 pages
...there never come from them one Sense, worth the life of a Day. A Rymer, 93 and a Poet, are two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought forth his verses like a Beare, and after form'd them with licking. Scaliger, the Father, writes it of him, that he made a quantitie... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1927 - 342 pages
...there never come from them one Sense, worth the life of a Day. A Rymer, and a Poet, are two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought forth his verses like a Beare, and after form'd them with licking. Scaliger, the father, writes it of him, that he made a quantitie... | |
 | Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - Criticism - 1928 - 406 pages
...toil." Such was the labour with which the poet Dante wrote. And Virgil, too, as Jonson reminds us, " brought forth his verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking." Shelley told us that "when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline." If that is so,... | |
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