 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...LOVE: " Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare ; " They spoil their business with an over-care ; " And he who servilely creeps after sense, " Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. " Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring " Allow'd his fancy the full force and swing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare ; " They spoil their business with an over-care ; •" And he who servilely creeps after sense, " Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. " Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring " Allow'd his fancy the full force and swing... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 450 pages
...will see. y Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care ; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allowed his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 462 pages
...will see. 3 Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allowed his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...POETRY. Poets, like lovers, should be bold, and dare ; They spoil their business with an over care : And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence: And though he stumble in a full career, Yet rashness is a better fault than fear. DRYDEN. IF it be,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...assumed over the critics of the time. Their general observations' ' Evelyn's Memoirs, i9th June, i668. he cuts short, by observing, that those who make them...and, by a still more forced derivation, the line, « A in I follow fate, which does too fast pursue, » is said to be borrowed from Virgil, «Eludit... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, 11 A in I he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but...will reach an excellence,» is justified from the cserpit humi tutus» of Horace; and, by a still more forced derivation, the line, n Ami follow fate,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 566 pages
...over the critics of the time. Their general observations he cuts * Evelyn's Memoirs, 19th June, 1668 short, by observing, that those who make them produce...And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, bat ne'er will reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutuf of Horace ; and, by... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...will see. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over care ; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. 1s Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...; it affected me to see how much the stage was degenerated and polluted by the licentious times."1 In this preface also he justified himself from the...reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit hwmi tutus " of Ho1 Evelyn's Memoirs, 19th June, 1668. race ; and, by a still more forced derivation,... | |
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Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. 
