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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. "
The Retrospective Review - Page 66
1821
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Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux; Annus Mirabilis ...

John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...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, that, like an highranging...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.' P. 29, l. 5. paronomasia, a pun ; called in humbler language by Dryden and his contemporaries, by Pope...
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Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux; Annus Mirabilis ...

John Dryden - 1874 - 388 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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Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux; Annus Mirabilis ...

John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...spaniel is again used by Dryden in his Dedication to the Earl of Orrery of fhe 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, l. 5. paronomasia, a pun; called in humbler language by Dryden and his contemporaries, by Pope...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 48

Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1899 - 536 pages
...curbs and bridles the imagination, ' which is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like a high ranging spaniel it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun...easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; . . . that which most regulates the Fancy and gives the Judgment its busiest employment is likely...
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Dryden: Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell; Astraea Redux; Annus ...

John Dryden - 1878 - 368 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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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 526 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 I have not seldom * [First represented and published as an entertainment in l656. Enlarged and played at a regular theatre...
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The advanced grammar of school-grammars

C. Duxbury - English language - 1884 - 278 pages
...the Estates of the Realm, requested the Prince and Princess to accept the crown. — Lord Macaulay. 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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 528 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 I have not seldom * [First represented and published as an entertainment in l65o. Enlarged and played at a regular theatre...
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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden - 1882 - 526 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 I have not seldom * [First represented and published as an entertainment in 1656. Enlarged and played at a regular theatre...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopędia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...or the future predominate over the present exalts us in the scale of thinking Iwings. — 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 outrun the judgment. — Dryden. There is...
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