 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...resolv'di for Nature pleads that ho Should only rule that most resembles me. Shadwellf alone my perfeet image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years.... Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands eonfirm'din full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretenee, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 476 pages
...resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; f « Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands...make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense ; ^ \> # Note I. f Note II. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 498 pages
...most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ;}f Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands...stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, i But Shadwell never deviates into sense ; \ « Note I. f Note II. VOL. X. 2 E Some beams of wit on... | |
 | 1822 - 314 pages
...with Wit, Cried—' Tis resolved ; for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my .perfect image bears, Mature in...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...Wit, Cried — ' 'Tis resolved ; for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulnessfrom they tell thee so, For thou art present wheresoe'er...Thy breath is Afric's spicy gale. Thy skin is ivory Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But Shadwell's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...resolv'd ; for nature pleads, that he Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfeet t eonfirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretenee, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...when&oe'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools. SHUingfleet, The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Drydcn. Some lower muse, perhaps, who lightly treads The deviuua paths where Wdiiton fancy leads. Roiee.... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pages
...through the immortal satire of Macjlecnoe, in which Dryden had pilloried him as the prince of dullness. 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...with wit, Cried, 'T is rcsolv'd ; for nature pleads, that he Should only rule who most resembles me, Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years : Shadwcll alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint... | |
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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. 
