 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...OF THE DAY. Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through...whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad. THE CHARACTER OF DRYDEN's GENIUS. 30& to have been the power of reasoning, and of expressing the result... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...muse, to all succeeding times Shall live, in spite of their own doggrel rhymes. Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of...And, in one word, heroically mad : He was too warm on picking- work to dwell, But fagotted his notions as they fell, And if they rhymed and rattled, all... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...Shadwell and poor Settle, who have come down to posterity in these lines : — " Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of...mad. He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But fagoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well." I cannot here omit... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...why, Made still a hlund'ring kind of melody ; [thin, Bpurr'd holdly on, and dash'd through thick and * Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in ; Free from all meaning, whether good or had, And, in ono word, heroically mad : Hs was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But fagotted his... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody ; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense,...mad. He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But fagoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well." I cannot here omit... | |
 | Howard Staunton - Education - 1865 - 622 pages
...though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody ; Spurred boldly on and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense...And in one word, heroically mad. He was too warm on picking work to dwell, But faggotted his notions as they fell, And if they rhymed and rattled, all... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Anonyms and pseudonyms - 1865 - 462 pages
...without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody, Spurred boldly 011, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in ; Free f.-om all menning, whether pood or bid, And, in one word, heroically mad. Dryden, Doe'sticks, Q,. K.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...1685. He was the author of seventeen plays, now totally forgotten. He had a Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through...all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word 1 _hejaicaljjr ,mad : He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But fagotted his notions as they fell,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 pages
...II. C Made still a blund'ring kind of melody ; [thin, Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in ; Free...mad : He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But fagotted his notions as they fell, And if they rhym'd and rattled, all was well. 42o Spiteful he is... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 534 pages
...without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody ; Si urrixl boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense,...; Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, io one word, heroically mad. Down to this time Settle had been a trusted servant and pamphleteer of... | |
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Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in... 
