 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 582 strani
...heavy spirits of the English from their natural reserv'dness; loosen'd them from their stiff forma of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to...the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrain'd, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of... | |
 | Dudley Howe Miles - 1910 - 304 strani
...conversation of his tune was much unproved over the conversation of Elizabethan tunes, that in his tune the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled...under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began 1 Dryden's Amphitryon, ii. 2 (p. 50 f.). first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our... | |
 | 1916 - 548 strani
...thought it had effected a great improvement over the discourse of an earlier age ; he maintained that "the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled...of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbors." II If we examine the comedies... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 strani
...one, so thfe 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... | |
 | Henry Cecil Wyld - 1920 - 426 strani
...to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained...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... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1976 - 408 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.'... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 strani
...one, so the excellency of his manners forgave the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English...under a constrained melancholy way of breeding, began to display its force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gayety of our neighbours."... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 strani
...one, so the excellency of his manners forgave the other. The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English...under a constrained melancholy way of breeding, began to display its force by mixing 268 MODERN ENGLISH IN THE MAKING the solidity of our nation with the... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 strani
...first waken'd the dull and heavy spirits of the English, from their natural reserv'dness: loosen'd them, from their stiff forms of conversation; and made them easy and plyant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free: and the fire... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 strani
...the King, whose example gives a law to it" (1:178,1 81). 4 Under Charles H's influence, wrote Dryden, "our way of living became more free: and the fire...of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours" (1:182). The Defence of... | |
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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,... 
