 Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some...  Poetical Works: With a Memoir - Page 233by John Dryden - 1866Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 lehte
...Mature in dullness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; Cut ShadwcU's... | |
 | John Bell - 1794 - 574 lehte
...spleen." Nothing can be falser than the idea intended to be conveyed in the following couplet : " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Mr. Shadwell was far inferior to Dryden ; but Shadwell did not write nonsense. Many of his couxdies... | |
 | 1803 - 410 lehte
...Shadwell, of which he has given proof in his bitterest satire called Mac-Fleckno, where he says, " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Yet all \ve learn hence is, that a satirist never pays the least regard to truth when it interferes... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 lehte
...dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in lull stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 424 lehte
...question, though his abilities have been so often contemned. Dryden, lashing him, says — " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense-." When the lord chamberlain was asked why he did not give the poet's crown to a superior genius, he replied,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 lehte
...Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. SO Some beams of wit on other souls may fall. Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But Shadwell's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 480 lehte
...resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; '(" Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense; * Note I. t N°te 1 1. VOL, X. 2 E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 lehte
...most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; f Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense; • Note I. t Not* II. VOL, X. 2 E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 lehte
...resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; "j" Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands...make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense ; * Note I. t Note II. VOL, x. % E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 lehte
...Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is be Who stands contirm'd in full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's... | |
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