 | Hans Meier - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...erst die rechte Kntik,~a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled with instruction; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which the censor was not able to have 33) Ra. 93. 34) Ra. 139. 35) BJ V, 222, vgl. III, 26. 30) Ra. 2. 3J)... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...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... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of a composition," whose criticism was that of a poet, not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, but a gay and vigorous dissertation, in which the poet by the power of his performance proves his right... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...Scott, ed. 1839, vol. ii, pp. 287-9. 2 ' The criticism of Dryden ', said Johnson, ' 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... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 764
...his Lives of the Poets, pays a graceful but not fulsome compliment to Dryden's essays: "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... | |
 | 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 948
...serious and illuminating piece of criticism. "The criticism of a poet," as Johnson says about Dryden's, "not a dull collection of theorems nor a rude detection of faults which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed." These minor Elizabethans are distinguished and delineated.... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...observes, Dryden always tries to mingle pleasure and truth: [T]he 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... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...authoritativeness in his evaluative practice had therefore as much to do with how, as he said of Dryden 's, "the author proves his right of judgement by his power of performance," as with his complicated sense of plurality and permanence in human affairs, which rendered his style... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...Johnson says of Dryden's prose is true of his own remarks on the metaphysicals, that it 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... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1 September 1751 The tone of criticism: . . . the criticism of a poet [is] not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults . . . but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where . . . the author proves his right of judgement, by... | |
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