 English, our nation can never want in any age such, who are able to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe. And though the fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years together, abandoned to a barbarous race of men, enemies of all...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2051823Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...any age such who are able to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe. And though the fury of a civil war, and power for twenty years...learning, had buried the muses under the ruins of monarchy ; yet, with the restoration of our happiness, we see revived poesy lifting up its head, and already... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...any age such who are able to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe. And though the fury of a civil war, and power for twenty years...had buried the muses under the ruins of monarchy; yet, with the restoration of our happiness, we see revived poesy lifting up its head, and already shaking... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...any age such, who are able to dispv e the empire of wit with any people in the universe. And though the fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years...learning, had buried the muses under the ruins of monarchy ; yet, with the restoration of our happiness, we see revived poesy lifting up its head, and already... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...any age such, who are able to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe. And though the fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years...had buried the muses under the ruins of monarchy; yet, with the restoration of our happiness, we see revived poesy lifting up its head, and already shaking... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 636 pages
...Poesy, ' that :ive had no leisure to be good poets. The fiwy of a civil war, and power for twenty year* together abandoned to a barbarous race of men, enemies of all good leiirning, had buried the muses under the rains of monarchy.' He thought that the Restoration had immediately... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...any age such, who are abla to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe. And though the fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years...learning, had buried the muses under the ruins of monarchy ; yet, with the restoration of our happiness, we see revived poesy lifting up its head, and already... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 pages
...Achitophel had a greater sale in the country l6 than any work which was at that time remembered. " The fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years...enemies of all good learning, had buried the muses," Dryden said, " under the ruins of monarchy ; yet," he adds, " with the restoration of our happiness,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poets, English - 1839 - 382 pages
...Achitophel had a greater sale in the country 16 than any work which was at that time remembered. " The fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years...enemies of all good learning, had buried the muses," Dryden said, "under the ruins of monarchy; yet," he adds, "with the restoration of our happiness, we... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poets, English - 1839 - 380 pages
...Achitophel had a greater sale in the country 16 than any work which was at that time remembered. " The fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years...enemies of all good learning, had buried the muses," Dryden said, "under the ruins of monarchy; yet," he adds, "with the restoration of our happiness, we... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 388 pages
...Achitophel had a greater sale in the country 1G than any work which was at that time remembered. " The fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years...enemies of all good learning, had buried the muses," Dryden said, " under the ruins of monarchy ; yet," he adds, " with the restoration of our happiness,... | |
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