 | English literature - 1834 - 580 pages
...(this cannot be an enumeration of all the favourites ?) ' may have been pure and elegant ; Dryden, airy and nervous; Taylor, witty and fanciful (! !) ; Hooker, weighty and various ;' but the young disciple hears not once mentioned the name of John Milton, whose writings are most deeply... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Classical education - 1825 - 66 pages
...renowned standards of severe taste in ancient C4 27 times. Addison may have been pure and elegant ; Dryden airy and nervous ; Taylor witty and fanciful ; Hooker...overdid — never knowing or feeling when they had done enough. In nothing, not even in beauty of collocation and harmony of rhythm, is the vast superiority... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1827 - 702 pages
...renowned standards of severe taste in ancient times. Addison may have been pure and elegant ; Dryden airy and nervous ; Taylor witty and fanciful ; Hooker...unknown in ancient times, but the besetting sin of latter days — they always overdid— never knowing or feeling when they had done enough. In nothing,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1832 - 284 pages
...renowned standards of severe taste in ancient times. Addison may have been pure and elegant; Dryden, airy and nervous; Taylor, witty and fanciful; Hooker,...weighty and various; but none of them united force with beauty—the perfection of matter with the most refined and chastened style; and to one charge all,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...Brougham, (this cannot be an enumeration of all the favourites ?) " may have been pure and elegant ; Dryden ing, * ; for this was one of Hcrcules's praises. Ere half these authors be read (whi the young disciple hears not once mentioned the name of John Milton, whose writings are most deeply... | |
 | University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 626 pages
...renowned standards of severe taste in ancient times. Addison may have been pure and elegant ; Dryden airy and nervous ; Taylor witty and fanciful ; Hooker...overdid — never knowing or feeling when they had done enough. In nothing, not even in beauty of collocation and harmony of rhythm, is the vast superiority... | |
 | John Barras Hay - 1839 - 376 pages
...renowned standards of severe taste in ancient times. Addison may have been pure and elegant; Dryden airy and nervous ; Taylor witty and fanciful; Hooker...weighty and various ; but none of them united force with beauty—the perfection of matter with the most refined and chastened style ; and, to one charge all,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Political science - 1839 - 514 pages
...renowned standards of severe taste in ancient times. Addison may have been pure and elegant; Dryden airy and nervous ; Taylor witty and fanciful; Hooker weighty and various; but none of them united grace with beauty—the perfection of matter with the most refined and chastened style ; and to one... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 630 pages
...taste in ancient times. Addison may have been pure and elegant j Dryden airy and nervous ; Taylor winy and fanciful ; Hooker weighty and various ; but none...unknown in ancient times, but the besetting sin of laier days — they always overdid — never knowing or feeling when they had done enough. In nothing,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 382 pages
...renowned standards of severe taste in ancient times. Addison may have been pure and elegant; Dryden airy and nervous; Taylor witty and fanciful ; Hooker weighty and various ; but none of them united grace with beauty- — the perfection of matter with the most refined and chastened style ; and to... | |
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... moralists, and perhaps more than all these, the preachers of the Augustan age of English letters, do not imagine that I would pass over their great defects, when compared with the renowned standards of severe taste in ancient times. Addison may have... 
