 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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 - 1895 - 234 pages
...though of greater bulk. but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled with instruction, and where the author proves his right of judgement,...his power of performance. The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed, was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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 - 1899 - 216 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 - 1905 - 530 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... | |
 | William Edward Bohn - 1907 - 98 pages
...the author's .price a shilling;"1 Doctor Johnson, on the contrary, speaks of them as "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 delict is mingled... | |
 | 1892 - 1058 pages
...author's price a shilling ; " ' Doctor Johnson, on the contrary, speaks of them as " 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 - 1913 - 220 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 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... | |
 | 1914 - 546 pages
...peculiarly fitted to pass upon his predecessor, has justly said that Dryden's criticism is the criticism of a poet; "not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
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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... 
