 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1907 - 252 Seiten
..." What judgment I had," he says, in tne Preface to the Fables, " increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." The bombasted magniloquence of the early rhetorical style has now disappeared. The very syntax is the... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 616 Seiten
...make his famous assertion that thoughts crowded in so fast upon him that his only difficulty was " to choose or to reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." He translated Juvenal and Persius, and published by subscription his famous translation of Virgil,... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 Seiten
...3 Rymer misled Dryden. There is no trace of Provencal influence on Chaucer. rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and practic'd both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to me. In short, tho' I may lawfully... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 Seiten
...more of it, I have no givat reason to complain. What Judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only Difficulty is to chuse or to reject; to run them into Verse, or to give them the other Harmony of Prose, I have so long... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 Seiten
...the prose prefaces; indeed he was frequently in doubt, he says, as to his "trooping thoughts, whether to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose." He was, as Lowell suggests, "a prose writer with a kind of . Koli;>n attachment." The limitations of... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 Seiten
...recreation. He could have said with Dryden that ' what judgment I had increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject '. He was still in hopes that he would be allowed to return to England, to die in his own country and... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 386 Seiten
..."Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me," he wrote in the preface to the Fables, "that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject,...other harmony of prose; I have so long studied and practiced both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to me." Dryden's style was a... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 Seiten
...write, and preach, and how one might "go" in verse. Verse became for him a natural form of utterance. "Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me," he wrote in the preface to the Fables, "that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 Seiten
...when, in the preface to the Fables, he wrote : What Judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only Difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of Prose. Such a style... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 Seiten
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgement I had increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose.' 1 Dryden's development was unusually protracted, but it never ceased. He never felt that his real work... | |
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What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose... 
