 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pàgines
...and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is 30 generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round, and...he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic. The Preface to FABLES Published March 1700 'T1s with a Poet, as with a man who designs to build, and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pàgines
...generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went 35 round, and he was laught at in his turn who began the frolic. And thus, my...manner of Horace, and of your Lordship, in this kind 5 of satire, to that of Juvenal, and, I think, reasonably. Holyday ought not to have arraigned so great... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...sides and little extravagances; to which the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in his tuni, who began the frolic." With Religio Laid, published late in 1682, Dryden established himself... | |
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... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the... 
