 | Animal behavior - 1892 - 1058 pages
...All references without titles are to Ker's edition of the essays. One of the great advantages of rime is that it " bounds and circumscribes the fancy. For...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment." * There is also to be found in this essay an incipient tendency in the direction of the heroic drama,... | |
 | English language - 1911 - 202 pages
...the sudden smartness of the answer and the sweetness of the rime set off the beauty of each other. But that benefit which I consider most in it, because...a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a highranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness... | |
 | Harry Gilbert Paul - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 252 pages
...age of growing rationalism, of which one of the assertions of Dryden may be taken as typical : 28 " 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 judgment." Just what relation... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1914 - 322 pages
...of the Rival Ladies (published 1664) he had written that the chief benefit to be derived from rhyme is that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy. For...it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgement. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; . . . but when the difficulty... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - Criticism - 1914 - 238 pages
...Dryden's viewpoint is characteristically different: "But that benefit which I consider most in it [rime], because I have not seldom found it, is that it bounds...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" (Ded. Rival Ladies).... | |
 | American fiction - 1914 - 546 pages
...classic age of English poetry, Dryden in the "Epistle Dedicatory of The Rival Ladies" asserts that "Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment" This same great "good-sense" man of the seventeenth century elsewhere says that "the story is the least... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 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 found it, is, that it bounds and Rhyme cir. ..... T-, . . . . . cumscribes circumscribes the fancy. For imagination in a poet is a the... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...have not seldom found it, is, that it bounds and Rhyme cir. *i_t/- TI . • • • . • cumscribes faculty so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging...it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the The great judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the bhrniTrcree poet too luxuriant ;... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - English literature - 1917 - 502 pages
...influences affected him greatly. In the dedication of his drama entitled The Rival Ladies, he said, " Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment." Elsewhere he also said that " the story is the least part of the poem, though it be the foundation... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1917 - 360 pages
...professions, Ars est celare artem. . . ." (3) " But that benefit which I consider most in it," says Dryden, " because I have not seldom found it, is that it bounds and circumscribes the fancy. . . . The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant." " The great easiness of blank... | |
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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. 
