 | 1809 - 604 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say he ever had a fit subject...high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta soient later vilurna cu/ircstl,' Vol. III. p. 470. The advantage of which we are now speaking is the completcst... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him: no man can say, he ever had a fit subject...himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta Solent inter viburna cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him: no man can say, he ever had a fit subject...himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary;... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bomhast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say he ever had a fit subject...himself as high above the rest of poets Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.* Virgil's Eclogues. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, ami did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lentii solent inter viburna... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is firesented to him : no man ran say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of fioets, Quantum lenta totent inter viburna cupressi. It is to be lamented, that such a writer should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raibe himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta sclent inter viburna cupressi." It is... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...inti bombast. But he is always great, when som :great occasion is presented to him : no man ci L k say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did...then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Qn.".;:!u;n lenta Solent inter viburna cnpr(ssi. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of i Eaton... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not1 then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta lolent inter viburna cupretti.... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he' is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say he ever had a fit subject...himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter .eibwma cupressi. The consideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eton -ixy, that there was... | |
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I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great,... 
