 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when - 1 nuc great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say,...himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburoa cupressi." It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary ;... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is sented to him. No man can say, he ever had a fit subject...himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta soient inter viburna cupressi." Besides his plays, Shakespear published in 1594 two poems, entitled... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...flat and msipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. Bnt be is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say, he ever had a flt subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, '• Quantum... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into " clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But " he is always great when some great occasion is " presented...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;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into " clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But " he is always great when some great occasion is " presented...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;... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches ; his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented...himself as high above the rest of poets, ' Quantum lenta solent Inter vibuma cupre»si.' " The consideration of this made Mr Hales of Eton say, that there was... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into 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 lit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...flat, and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented...raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lento, solent inter Viburna Cupressi." M ception in which, I think, he has fully retained, if not improved... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...insipid ; his comick wit ' degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into ' bombast. But he is always great when some great ' occasion is presented...then ' raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Ft is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary ; that his language should become... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...flat, and insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented...did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poetg, Quantum lenta solent inter Viburtia Cufiresei,'' Y ception in which, I think, he has fully retained,... | |
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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,... 
