 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dullness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...spleen." Nothing can be falser than the idea intended to be conveyed in the following couplet : " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Mr. Shadwell was far inferior to Dryden ; but Shadwell did not write nonsense. Many of his couxdies... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...with Wit, Cry'd, 'Tis resolv'd ; for Nature pleads that h< Should onry rule who most resembles me. Shadwell. alone my perfect image bears, Mature in...years; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity: The rest to eome faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 410 pages
...Shadwell, of which he has given proof in his bitterest satire called Mac-Fleckno, where he says, " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Yet all \ve learn hence is, that a satirist never pays the least regard to truth when it interferes... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...with Wit, Cried — ' 'Tis resolv'd; for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in lull stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | Mark Noble - Great Britain - 1806 - 424 pages
...question, though his abilities have been so often contemned. Dryden, lashing him, says — " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense-." When the lord chamberlain was asked why he did not give the poet's crown to a superior genius, he replied,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...with Wit, Cry'd, 'Tis resolv'd ; for Nature pleads, that he Should only rule, who most resembles rnr . Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Mature in dulness...; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 480 pages
...wit, Cried, — 'Tis resolved ! for nature pleads, that he Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense; * Note I. t N°te 1 1. VOL, X. 2 E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...with Wit, Cried—' 'Tis resolv'd; for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is be Who stands contirm'd in full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 474 pages
...wit, Cried, — Tis resolved ! for nature pleads, that he Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; "j" Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some... | |
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Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he " Should only rule who most resembles me. " Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, " Mature in dulness from his tender years ; " Shadwell alone of all my sons is he " Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. " The... 
