 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 strani
...p.] Page 40. I- 4. he charged Blackmore with stealing. In the preface to his Fables, "But I will deal more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead, and therefore peace to the manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble knight that I drew the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 strani
...that I was the author of Absalom and 35 Achitophel, which, he thinks, is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead ; and 5 therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 strani
...Absalom and 35 Achitophel, which, he thinks, is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But 1 will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead ; and 5 therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight... | |
 | John Dryden - 1904 - 762 strani
...author of" Absalom and Achitophel," which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in Ix>ndon. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems,...dead : and therefore peace be to the manes of his Arthurs.* I will only say, that it was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 strani
...that I was the author of Absalom and Achit- 10 ophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...the dead, and therefore peace be to the manes of his Arthurs. I will only say that it was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan 15 of an epic poem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 strani
...from criticism. Post, POPE, 239, 278. Tennyson felt with Racine. 4 Dryden wrote of him in 1700 : — ' I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because...is to be spoken of the dead ; and therefore peace to the manes of his " Arthurs." ' Works, xi. 241. See also ante, DRYDEN, 145. 5 ' The Hero William,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 strani
...is, that I was the author of Absalom and Achitophel, which he thinks was a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...the dead, and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say that it was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 634 strani
...that I was the author of Absalom and 'Achitophel, which, he thinks, is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead; and therefore " Sir Richard Blackmore, who had censured Dryden for the indecency of his writings. peace be to the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 strani
...lilackmore's Prince Artlmr and King Arthur — two ponderous heroic poems in ten and twelve books : " I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because...spoken of the dead ; and therefore peace be to the wanes of his Arthurs." His magnanimous spirit appears in the candour with which he acknowledges his... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 strani
...that I was the author of Absalom and Achitophel. which, he thinks, is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...dead ; and therefore peace be to the manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem... | |
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Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. 
