 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 strani
...one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English...of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours.* This being * This passage,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 strani
...imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms...way of breeding, began first to display its force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours. This being granted to... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 strani
...one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 strani
...one, so th? excellency bf his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1895 - 314 strani
...one, so the excellency of his manners a reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness.' With every allowance for adulation, there can be no doubt that Dryden iu a considerable measure believed... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 strani
...of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the 15 dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural...more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which 20 was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 strani
...of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the 15 dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural...more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which 20 was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force,... | |
 | William Edward Bohn - 1907 - 98 strani
...one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English...our way of living became more free ; and the fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 544 strani
...Dryden in his Defence of the Epilogue (1672), 'of imitating so great a pattern loosened' the English 'from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse.' And, of Charles II, Halifax says that his wit ' consisted chiefly in the quickness of his apprehension.'... | |
 | 1892 - 1058 strani
...one, so the excellency of his manners reformed the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English...our way of living became more free ; and the fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first... | |
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The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus,... 
