 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - English drama - 1796 - 132 pages
...servilely after " sense, I assure you." Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; They spoil thejr business with an over-care } And he who servilely creeps after sense, • Is safe, but ne'er can reach to excellence. Prologue la Tyrannic Lon-t. Acr r. Note ip 68. •' K. Z/ri.BuT stay! —... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 436 pages
...mine ? p. 57. Note 13. p. 67. " He is too proud a man to creep servilely after " sense, I assure you." Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; They...who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er can reach to excellence. Prologue to Tyrannic Love. ACT V. Note ip 68. *' K. I/rA.BuT stay! — What... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...it. VALE. * Our author alludes to the following spirited line* of the Prologue to TYRANNICK LOVE: " Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare ; " They...creeps after sense, " Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. " Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring " Allow'd his fancy the full force and swing... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...VALE. * Our author alludes to the following spirited linet of •the Prologue to TYRANNICK LOVE: " Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare; " They...creeps after sense, " Is safe, but ne'er will reach to excellence. II Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring " Allow'd his fancy the full force and swing;... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, " And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutus " of Horace; and, by a still more forced derivation, the... | |
 | Prologues - Prologues and epilogues - 1810 - 280 pages
...dare, They fpoil their bufinefs with an over-care: And he who fervilely creeps after fenfe, Is fafe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. Hence 'tis, our poet in his conjuring, Allow'd his fancy the full fcope and fwing. But when a tyrant for his theme he had, He loos'd the reins... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...Pah ! when they see a knife in a child's hand ; they wjll never say any thing to a man. IBID. POETRY. 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: And... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, « And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence,» is justified from the «serpit humi tutus » of Horace; and, by a still more forced derivation, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, 11 A in I he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence,» is justified from the cserpit humi tutus» of Horace; and, by a still more forced derivation, the line,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...reprehend. Special objections are refuted, by an appeal to classical authority. Thus the couplet, " And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence," is justified from the " serpit humi tutus" of Horace ; and, by a still more forced derivation, the... | |
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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. 
