 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...metal, of lower value though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubject, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet...not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous diflertation, where delight is mingled with inftruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...In this, and in all his other Essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...In this, and in all his other Essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
..." In this, and in all his other Essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the cri$kism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...this, and in all his other efiays oft the fame fubject, the criticifm of Dryden is th_e_criticifinj)fa poet; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude...not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous differtation, where delight is mingled with inftruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...In this, and in all his other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubject, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet;...not able to .have committed ; but a gay and vigorous differtation, where delight is mingled with inftruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...In this, and in all his other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...In this, and in all his other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism n the same occasion, but " like hunted castors ;" and they might with strict propriety censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...metal, of lower value, though of greater bulk. In this, and in all his other eflays on the fame fubject, the criticifm of Dryden is the criticifm of a poet...not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous differtation, where delight is mingled with inftrufction, and where the author proves his right of... | |
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Dryden is the criticism of •a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled with instruction, and where... 
