 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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 dulness...sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. i ' Mac Plecknoe : ' Richard Flecknoe, from whom this poem derives its name, was an Irish priest, and... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 pages
...Achitophel.) Or, as a specimen of his more remorseless style, take the following from Mac FlecJcnoe : — ' Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | 1874 - 802 pages
...general election displaced Mr, Bernal Osborne in his seat at Waterford. In truth it must be admitted that The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Mr. Conolly is a red-hot Protestant who sits on the Conservative benches and displays much ingenuity... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, A thousand men, that fishes gnaw'd upon. SHAKSPEARE. DULNESS. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years. DRYDEN. Taught, or untaught, the dunce is still the same; Yet still the wretched master bears the blame.... | |
 | sir John Skelton - 1876 - 430 pages
...Shad well of Mac Flecknoe with the Goddess of Night and Chaos in the Dunciad. This is Shadwell : — 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... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1876 - 184 pages
...my sovereign. — Gibbon. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears Mature in dulness from his earliest years : Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. — Dryden. 199. Emphasis is sometimes obtained by putting fonvard a subject and not completing the... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...: ' 'Tis resolved ; for Nature pleads, that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell,11 ou comcst to make my tomb was he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence ; But... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...Nonsense, absolute, resigns the crown in favour of his son Mac-Flecnoe, or Shadwell, on the ground that— Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Mature in dulness from his tender years. The audience accept Shadwell's nomination, for— All arguments, but most his plays persuade. That... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 pages
...more wit and humour than any other poet. His rivalry with Dryden excited the ill-natured lines— " Mature in dulness from his tender years, Shadwell...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." $ The monument, erected by the poet's son, Sir John Shadwell, bears his pert-looking bust crowned with... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 pages
...more wit and humour than any other poet. His rivalry with Dryden excited the ill-natured lines— " Mature in dulness from his tender years, Shadwell...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." § The monument, erected by the poet's son, Sir John Shadwell, bears his pert-looking bust crowned... | |
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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. 
