 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 386 pages
..."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,...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose; I have so long studied and practiced both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - English literature - 1921 - 454 pages
...achievement. Such a passage as the following displays the instinct of a consummate man of letters : ' Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose : I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar... | |
 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...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 fast...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... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...it, I have no great 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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...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 studied and practised both, that they 2830 L 289 are grown into a Habit, and become... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the 30 other harmony of prose : I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit,... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1928 - 54 pages
...20 1 have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...to reject, to run them into verse, or to give them 25 the other harmony of prose : I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and practic'd both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to... | |
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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. 
