 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - Počet stránok 604
...which is true so far as it goes. In his Prologue to the " Royal Martyr" he says : — " And he whp servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. ***** But, when a tyrant for his theme he had, He loosed the reins and let his muse run mad, And, though... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - Počet stránok 964
...story of St. Catherine. In the prologue to this, he extended Horace's " serpit humi tutus " into " He who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence." He knew very well that he was often pleasing his audiences with ranted nonsense in heroic strain. Porphyrius... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - Počet stránok 740
...will see. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over care ; And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet, in his conjuring, ...Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing. But when a tyrant... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - Počet stránok 794
...pension. DRYDEN. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; They spoil their business with an over-care: And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. DRYDEN. O fortunate young man ! at least your lays Are next to his, and claim the second praise. DRYDEN.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - Počet stránok 788
...DRYDEN. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; They spoil their business with an over-care : And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. DRYDEN. O fortunate young man ! at least your lays Are next to his, and claim the second praise. DRYDEN.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - Počet stránok 706
...story* of St. Catherine. In the prologue to this, he extended Horace's " serpit humi tutus " into " He who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence." He knew very well that he was often pleasing his audiences with ranted nonsense in heroic strain. Porphyrius... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1885 - Počet stránok 332
...But Dryden in his plays (not in his .other poems) boldly translated Horace's serbit humi tutus, into, "He who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence." The particular excellence attained by flying out of sight of sense is burlesqued in the Duke of Buckingham's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - Počet stránok 674
...that those who make them produce nothing of their own, or only what is more ridiculous than anything they reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by...sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence," ia justified from the " serpii }vwmi iuius" of Horace ; and, by a still more forced derivation, the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - Počet stránok 408
...fallacies which is true so far as it goes. In his Prologue to the " Royal Martyr " he says : — " And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. But, when a tyrant for his theme he had, He loosed the reins and let his muse run mad, And, though... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1887 - Počet stránok 400
...tutus " — " Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an overcare : And he who servilely creeps after sense Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence." K In England, then, there was as much need as in France of Boileau's critical gospel of Bon Sens ;... | |
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Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. 
