...Corneille feared to draw an original character in comedy lest he should give an exaggerated picture : — " 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."...

...j Yon equal judges of the whole will be: m }• They judge but half, who only faults will I see. j odet : for his Satires and Epistlr.x, being intended...docrri — and therefore, as he himself professes 't is, our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant for...

...speeches the Key of 1704 refers to linos ¡n the prologue of Dryden's Tyrannic Lore (Ss. ill. 383) : Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; They...sense. Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Dryden defends this In his preface to the play (Se. III. 381) as an imitation of Horace's scrpit humi...

...speeches the Key of 1704 refers to lines In the prologue of Dryden's Tyrannic Lore (Ss. 111. 383): Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; They spoil their business with an over-care; And be who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Dryden defends this...

...in strength, Our builders were with want of genius cursed, The second temple was not like the first. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They...servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. Time, place, and action may with pains be taught, But genius must be born, and never...

...which I have used are those giveu in this edition. a) II 416, op. cit. 3) Scott-Saintsbury ed. III 379. "And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe,...will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet, in bis conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the füll scope and swing." This is absolutely opposed to Rymer's...

...restraint, and realizes that it is not possible of attainment in heroic drama. So in the prolog we read, I "And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe,...excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing." This is absolutely opposed to Rymer's demand that fancy...

...wasps, who dart Death to themselves, and to their foes but smart. — GEORGE CRABBE. Poets, like Divers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an overcare. — DKYDEN. Poets — continued. Poets, like painters, their machinery claim, And verse bestows the...

...erstrebt (V, p. 122). In seinem „Prologue to Tyrannic Love" hatte er sogar die kühnen Verse gebracht : „Poets, like Lovers, should be bold and dare, They...Sense, is safe, but ne'er will reach an Excellence" (III, p. 383). dem Gebiet der poetischen Sprache. Schwulst und andere Übertreibung wurden gepflegt...

...censures free, i0 You equal Judges of the whole will be: They judge but half who only faults will see. Poets, like Lovers, should be bold and dare. They...with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sence, Is safe, but ne're will reach an Excellence. Hence 'tis, our Poet in his conjuring, Allow'd...