 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 Seiten
...force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. DRYDEN. ON BUNYAN. INGENIOUS dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - 1866 - 364 Seiten
...bye-word. Cowper found it necessary to suppress his name while passing a high eulogium on his work. " Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail, I name thee not, lest so despised a name Should move a sneer at thy deserved fume ! " Tet over all... | |
 | 1867 - 972 Seiten
...this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient," — Lord Macaulay. " Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile... | |
 | Robert Cowe - 1868 - 522 Seiten
...enveloped him in the darkness of perpetual night. It awoke and fed the genius of Bunyan, that gifted and " Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail." While admiring both his genius and his piety, Cowper said of him, " I name thee not, lest so despised... | |
 | John Mockett Cramp - 1868 - 596 Seiten
...happy spring, I[pleased remember, and while memory yet Holds fast her office here, can ne'er forget ; Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1869 - 332 Seiten
...happy spring, f, pleased, remember, and while memory yet Holds fast her office here, can ne'er forget. Ingenious dreamer ! in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile... | |
 | Medley, G F S - 1870 - 148 Seiten
...such mild sunshine as the good old Pilgrim's Progress in the memory of so many men ? THOMAS CABLYLE. Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale, Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 574 Seiten
...happy spring, I pleased remember, and, while memory yet Holds fast her office here, can ne'er forget ; Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile... | |
 | 1870 - 174 Seiten
...happy spring, I pleased remember, and while memory yet Holds fast her office here, can ne'er forget ; Ingenious dreamer ! in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; Whose hum'rous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile... | |
 | Patrick Thomson - 1872 - 280 Seiten
...and the favourite alike of youth and age, — " The Pilgrim's Progress " of the immortal Bunyan, " Ingenious dreamer in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; . . . . Where pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God." It is matter of... | |
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Back to the season of life's happy spring, 1 pleased remember, and, while memory yet Holds fast her office here, can ne'er forget; Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail... 
