 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 472 pages
...crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verses, or to give them the other harmony of prose : I have...they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to me."3 With these powers he entered upon his second career; the English constitution and genius opened... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1878 - 518 pages
...am sure it has devoured some part of his good manners and civility. (SBotrebe ju ben gabein.) ***) Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chose or to reject; to run them into verses or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long... | |
 | Richard William Church - Poets, English - 1879 - 202 pages
...says of himself, is true of Spenser : "Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon ine, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." There was in Spenser a facility for turning to account all material, original or borrowed, an incontinence... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 566 pages
...astray. What Dryden in one of his interesting critical prefaces says of himself is true of Spenser: " Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." There was in Spenser a facility for turning to account all material, original or borrowed, an incontinence... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 pages
...astray. What Dryden, in one of his interesting critical prefaces says of himself, is true of Spenser : "Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." There was in Spenser a facility for turning to account all material, original or borrowed, an incontinence... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 424 pages
...faculties of his soul. " What judgment I had," he writes, " increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse or to give them the other harmony of prose." This passage is significant. The words savour more of the rhetorician than of the poet. Thoughts that... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...the faculties of his soul. "What judgment I had," he writes, " increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse or to give them the other harmony of prose." This passage is significant. The words savour more of the rhetorician than of the poet. Thoughts that... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1883 - 516 pages
...ártatlanságukat bizonyolták. A király testvérét megfosztották hivatalaitól, s ki akarták 6s Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty iB to chose or to reject ; to rim them into verses or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 384 pages
...at about the same time he says elsewhere: "What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes, and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...they are grown into a habit and become familiar to me."1 I think that a man who was primarily a poet would hardly have felt this equanimity of choice.... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 624 pages
...astray. What Dryden, in one of his interesting critical prefaces says of himself, is true of Spenser: "Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose." There was in Spenser a facility for turning to account all material, original or borrowed, an incontinence... | |
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What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose... 
