| George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1796 - 132 Seiten
...servilely after " sense, I assure you." Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; They spoil thejr business with an over-care } And he who servilely creeps after sense, • Is safe, but ne'er can reach to excellence. Prologue la Tyrannic Lon-t. Acr r. Note ip 68. •' K. Z/ri.BuT stay! —... | |
| 1797 - 436 Seiten
...mine ? p. 57. Note 13. p. 67. " He is too proud a man to creep servilely after " sense, I assure you." Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; They...who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er can reach to excellence. Prologue to Tyrannic Love. ACT V. Note ip 68. *' K. I/rA.BuT stay! — What... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 Seiten
...VALE. * Our author alludes to the following spirited linet of •the Prologue to TYRANNICK LOVE: " Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; " They...creeps after sense, " Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. II Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring " Allow'd his fancy the full force and swing;... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 Seiten
...it. VALE. * Our author alludes to the following spirited line* of the Prologue to TYRANNICK LOVE: " Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare ; " They...creeps after sense, " Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. " Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring " Allow'd his fancy the full force and swing... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 Seiten
...reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, " And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutus " of Horace; and, by a still more forced derivation, the... | |
| Prologues - 1810 - 280 Seiten
...dare, They fpoil their bufinefs with an over-care: And he who fervilely creeps after fenfe, Is fafe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full fcope and fwing. But when a tyrant for his theme he had, He loos'd the reins... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 Seiten
...Pah ! when they see a knife in a child's hand ; they wjll never say any thing to a man. IBID. POETRY. Poets, like lovers, should be bold, and dare ; They spoil their business with an over care : And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence: And... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 458 Seiten
...censure free,' You equal judges of the whole should be : They judge but half, who only faults will see. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They...excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant for his theme he had, He loosed the reins,... | |
| John Dryden - 1821 - 570 Seiten
...reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, " And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutus" of Horace ; and, by a still more forced derivation, the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 Seiten
...reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, « And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence,» is justified from the «serpit humi tutus » of Horace; and, by a still more forced derivation, the... | |
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