| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pages
...faint meaning make 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 a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric... | |
| Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1810 - 514 pages
...Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity ; The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense ; Some beams of wit on other...fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day."' His works, consisting... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other...fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, but Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other...fall, strike through, and make a lucid interval: but Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, his rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his godly fabric... | |
| England - 1851 - 786 pages
...Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other...fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But Shad well's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day." To get rid of these... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...Who stands confirm'din full stupidity : I The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other...may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; Flecnoe was an Irishman by birth, and a Roman Catholic priest by profession ; but not so utterly... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...Who stands eonfirm'din full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretenee, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lueid interval i Fleenoe wu an Irhhman by W,th, and a Roman Catholie fna' by profettioni but not to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...¡Who stands confirn'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, Tiut Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike throngh, and make a lucid interval : But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other...fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other...fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric... | |
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