...subject, but in the pleasantest dress that poetry can bestow on it. ADDISON, I., p. 158. Dryden . . . had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...purely natural that he did not esteem them in others. 1781. S. JOHNSON, VII., p. 340. What has since been called Artificial Poetry was then nourishing, in...

...predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon 10 all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than...separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted ; and seldom describes them but as they are complicated by the various relations of society, and confused...

...predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented he studied rather than...such as Nature enforces but meditation supplies." It is this quick sensibility which differentiates the new from the old criticism ; if it makes a gap...

...predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all Boswell esteem them in others." It may, indeed, be observed, that in all the numerous writings of Johnson,...

...predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than...simple and elemental passions as they spring separate • See page 146 of this Volume. in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with...

...again, it is something to be born with a heart, particularly for' a poet." — Mrs. Browning. " He is, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic; and had so little sensibility of effusions purely natural that he did not esteem them in others ; simplicity gave him no pleasure."...

...predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than...purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others.' even in his Tragedy, of which the subject is the distress of an unfortunate Princess, there is not...

...predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than...and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, hut meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind,...

...rather strong reason than quick 1 See vol. ii. p. 61. 1781] THE LIFE OF DRYDEN 365 sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than...therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not...

...predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than...simple and elemental passions as they spring separate • See page 146 of this Volume. in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with...