 | 1890 - 330 sidor
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day." 20. A month after the publication of Mac Flecknoe, there appeared a second part of Absalom and Achitophel,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 sidor
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence. But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval But Shadwell's gemdne night admits no ray; Hi3 rising fogs prevail against the day. Besides, his goodly fabric fills... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 sidor
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. . . . Heywood and Shirley 2 were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology. Even I, a... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 194 sidor
..." The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shad well never deviates into sense.__j 20 " Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, " Strike...eye " And seems designed for thoughtless majesty, f\ ; , " Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plahT^\ . " And; spread in solemn state, supinely... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 sidor
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. . . ' Here Dryden describes the preparations made by a king (of letters) to abdicate his throne in... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sidor
...pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike thro', and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. . . ." The humorous shock of such lines as "Who stand confirmed in full stupidity," "But Shadwell never... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 sidor
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence. But Sh never deviates into sense. 20 Some beams of wit on other souls may fall. Strike through, and make a lucid interval; But Sh 's genuine night admits no ray; His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 sidor
...in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Sh never deviates into sense. Some Beams of Wit on other souls may fall Strike through and make a lucid intervall; But Sh 's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the Day: Besides, his... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 sidor
...stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. 20 Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval, But ShadwelTs genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 sidor
...stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. »t Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye,0 And seems designed for thoughtless majesty; Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain,... | |
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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 full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some... 
