 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pàgines
...erst die rechte Kntik,~a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled with instruction; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which the censor was not able to have 33) Ra. 93. 34) Ra. 139. 35) BJ V, 222, vgl. III, 26. 30) Ra. 2. 3J)... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 pàgines
...in all his other essays on the same subject, the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of •a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pàgines
...taught us to determine upon principles the merit of a composition," whose criticism was that of a poet, not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, but a gay and vigorous dissertation, in which the poet by the power of his performance proves his right... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pàgines
...1839, vol. ii, pp. 287-9. 2 ' The criticism of Dryden ', said Johnson, ' is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 pàgines
...the Poets, pays a graceful but not fulsome compliment to Dryden's essays: "The criticism of a poet, not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | 1909 - 948 pàgines
...serious and illuminating piece of criticism. "The criticism of a poet," as Johnson says about Dryden's, "not a dull collection of theorems nor a rude detection of faults which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed." These minor Elizabethans are distinguished and delineated.... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pàgines
...Dryden's prose is true of his own remarks on the metaphysicals, that it is "the criticism of a poet; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - 244 pàgines
...Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1 September 1751 The tone of criticism: . . . the criticism of a poet [is] not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults . . . but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where . . . the author proves his right of judgement, by... | |
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Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled with instruction, and where... 
