 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 pagini
...he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dullness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; Cut ShadwcU's... | |
 | John Bell - 1794 - 574 pagini
...spleen." Nothing can be falser than the idea intended to be conveyed in the following couplet : " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Mr. Shadwell was far inferior to Dryden ; but Shadwell did not write nonsense. Many of his couxdies... | |
 | 1801 - 416 pagini
...Nature pleads that h< Should onry rule who most resembles me. Shadwell. alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years; Shadwell...Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity: The rest to eome faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. to Eome beams of wit on other... | |
 | 1803 - 410 pagini
...Shadwell, of which he has given proof in his bitterest satire called Mac-Fleckno, where he says, " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Yet all \ve learn hence is, that a satirist never pays the least regard to truth when it interferes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pagini
...[stupiditf, French; sJup'uiitas, Latin.] Dulnrss; heaviness of mind ; sluggishness of understanding. Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he "Who stands confirm'd in full stufijity. Drydcn. STU'PIDLY. adv. [from stupid.] I. With suspension or inactivity of understanding.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pagini
...Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell...alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in lull stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 424 pagini
...question, though his abilities have been so often contemned. Dryden, lashing him, says — " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense-." When the lord chamberlain was asked why he did not give the poet's crown to a superior genius, he replied,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pagini
...Nature pleads, that he Should only rule, who most resembles rnr . Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. SO Some beams of wit on other souls may fall. Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But Shadwell's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 480 pagini
...nature pleads, that he Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; '(" Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pagini
...Mature in dulness from his tender years ; f Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense; • Note I. t Not* II. VOL, X. 2 E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make... | |
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The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. 
