 I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed...  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgil - Sida 213efter Samuel Johnson - 1779Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 sidor
...his search after these beauties in Cowley, the darling of his youth, " I consulted," says Dryden, " a greater genius, (without offence to the manes of...mean — Milton ; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 sidor
...quirks of epigram, even in the " Davideis," an heroic poem, which is of an opposite nature to those puerilities ; but no elegant turns either on the word or on the thought. Then I consulted a greater genius, (without offence to the manes of that noble author,) I mean Milton; but... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 sidor
...quirks of epigram, even in the " Davideis," an heroic poem, which is of an opposite nature to those puerilities ; but no elegant turns either on the word or on the thought. Then I consulted a greater genius, (without offence to the manes of that noble author,) I mean Milton ; but... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 sidor
...quirks of epigram, even in the " Davideis," an heroic poem, which is of an oppofite nature to thofe puerilities ; but no elegant turns either on the word,...in him a true fublimity, lofty thoughts, which were cloathed with admirable Grecifms, and ancient words, which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 sidor
...quirks of epigram, even in the " Davideis," an heroic poem, which is of an oppofite nature to thole puerilities ; but no elegant turns either on the word,...mean Milton ; but as he endeavours every where to exprefe Homer, whofe age had not arrived to that finenefs, I found in him a true fublimity, lofty thoughts,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 sidor
...his search after these beauties in Cowley, the darling of his youth, " I consulted," says Dryden, " a greater genius, (without offence to the manes of...mean — Milton ; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 sidor
...quirks of epigram, even in the " Davideis," an heroic poem, which is of an opposite nature to those puerilities ; but no elegant turns, either on the word or on the thought. Then I consulted a greater genius, (without offence to the manes of that noble author), I mean Milton ; but... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 sidor
...quirks of epigram, even in the ' Davideis,' an heroic poem, which is of an opposite nature to those puerilities; but no elegant turns either on the word or on the thought. Then I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author), I mean Milton : but... | |
 | 1822 - 686 sidor
...the famous Cowley ; f — there I found, instead of them, the points of wit and quirks of epigram ; but no elegant turns, either on the word or on the thought. Then I consulted a greater genius, (without offence to the manes of that noble author), I mean Milton ; but... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sidor
...and quirks of epigram, even in the Davideis, a heroic poem, which is of an opposite nature to those puerilities ; but no elegant turns, either on the word or on the thought. Then I consulted a greater genius, without offence to the manes of that noble author, I mean — Milton ;... | |
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