 | William Macneile Dixon - English literature - 1898 - 240 pages
...and circumscribes the fancy. For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it,...easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant.' J Or in other words, moderation, restraint, regularity, order, what is there in poetry which can compensate... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English literature - 1898 - 258 pages
...unconscious forerunners of the Romantic school who attacked it. The value of rhyme was found by Dryden to be, that 'it bounds and circumscribes the fancy. For imagination...poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high-ranging spaniel, 185 it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 364 pages
...call imagination ; but when we would express the decay ... it is called memory. HOBBES, III., pp. 4-6. 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. 1664. DRYDEN, II.,... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 360 pages
...III., pp. 4-6. 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. 1664. DRTDEN, II., p. 138. Wit ... is the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 420 pages
...ryme or measured verse, by the former a man shall have a neere gesse to the follower.' P. 8, 1. 8. that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it. Cf. Shakespeare, Tempest, i. 2. 81 : ' To trash for overtopping,' and note in Madden, Diary of Master... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 412 pages
...ryme or measured verse, by the former a man shall have a neere gesse to the follower.' P. 8, 1. 8. that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it. Cf. Shakespeare, Tempest, ia 81 : ' To trash for overtopping,' and note in Madden, Diary of Master... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...circumscribes the fancy. 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." This philosophy, so typical of the time, did not prevent Dryden from pushing his characters into unnatural... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1903 - 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...it, is, that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy." (Essays of Dryden, ed. WP Ker, vol. ip 8.) In the Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Crites, representing Sir... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - English literature - 1905 - 550 pages
...characteristic dramatic works are his "heroic plays" in rhyme, the use of which he defended on the ground that "it bounds and circumscribes the fancy. For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that it is like an high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it lest it outrun the judgment." Dryden's... | |
 | William Edward Bohn - Criticism - 1907 - 98 pages
...of the great advantages of rime is that it " bounds and circumscribes the fancy. For imagination iu a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment." 1 There is also to be found in this essay an incipient tendency in the direction of the heroic drama,... | |
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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. 
