 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...the sudden smartness of the answer, and thesweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because...poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like :m high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...the sudden smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because...in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, likean high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 438 pages
...hitherto heen oppressed. The same idea occurs also in the epistle dedicatory to Dryden's Rival Ladies : " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogst rii.d to it, lest it outrun tht judgment" Trash, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 448 pages
...hitherto been oppressed. The same idea occurs also in the epistle dedicatory to Dryden's Rival Ladies : " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogi tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment" Trash, in the first... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 pages
...the sudden smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because...high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it out- run the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is tempted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...hitherto been oppressed. The same idea occurs also in the Epistle Dedicatory to Dryden's Rival Ladies: " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgement." Trash, in the... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a duchess; which is not the case. Dr. & Johnson. Imagination, in a poet, is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs to it, lest it out-run the judgment. Dnjden. When nature's... | |
 | W F. Richards - Elementary school teaching - 1856 - 198 pages
...of them ? GEAMMAE. (Three Hours allowed for this Paper.) 1. Paraphrase the following passage : — " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that it needs to have some check put upon it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse... | |
 | 1856 - 376 pages
...what is narrated or prophesied about each of them 1 GRAMMAR. 1. Paraphrase the following passage : " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that it needs to have some check put upon it lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...spaniel is again used by Dryden in his Dedication to the Earl of Orrery of the Rival Ladies (1664) : ' Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless,...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.' P. 29, 1. 5. paronomasia, a pun; called in humbler language by Dryden and his contemporaries, by Pope... | |
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For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. 
