 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 lehte
...resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dullness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd...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... | |
 | 1801 - 416 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 confirm'd in full stupidity: The rest to eome faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. to Eome beams of wit on other... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 lehte
...[stupiditf, French; sJup'uiitas, Latin.] Dulnrss; heaviness of mind ; sluggishness of understanding. Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he "Who stands confirm'd in full stufijity. Drydcn. STU'PIDLY. adv. [from stupid.] I. With suspension or inactivity of understanding.... | |
 | 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
...resembles rnr . Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd...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
...in dulness from his tender years ; '(" Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning...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
...Mature in dulness from his tender years ; f Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning...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... | |
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Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. 
