 ... what kind soever escape them. I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry, who like those in architecture, not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans, have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies...  A Manual of Logic - Page 244by Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1849 - 12 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...they are the words of the observation. The order ought to have been, " Mr Dryden, in the foU " lowing words, makes a very handsome observation " on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to ^Eneas." * An example of the first is Andrew Askew, of the second, ITezekiah Thrift, and of the third Norman... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place will} all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to jf.neas, in the following words: ' Ovid (says he, speaking ot Virgil's fiction of Dido and ./Eneas)... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to jEneas, in the following words: ' Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and ^Lneas) takes... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with ali the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation, on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to tineas, in the following words. ' Ovid,' says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and jEneas,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an in'egular.fancy. Mr. Di-yden makes a very handsome observation, on • Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to JEneas, in the following words. ' Ovid,' says he, speakingof Virgil's fiction of GiAo and -/Eneas,... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Drytlea makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to /Emvis, in the following words : ' Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and ^Eneas)... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...instructed scribe, is like a householder, who bringeth out of his treasure things new and old. Dryden makes a very handsome observation, on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to ./Eneas, in the following words. Imprudent associations disqualify us for the instruction or reproof of others.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 366 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to ./Eneas, in the following words: ' Ovid,' says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and ./Eneas, ' takes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to ^Eneas, in the following words : " Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and jEneas) " takes... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to JEneas, in the following words : " Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and ./Eneas)... | |
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