 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1919 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - American literature - 1923 - 548 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... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1924 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - Comparative literature - 1925 - 566 pages
...Epistle Dedicatory of the Rival Ladies : " But that benefit which I consider most in it (ie rhyme), because I have not seldom found it, is, that it bounds...circumscribes the fancy. For imagination in a poet is a facultj' so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest... | |
 | Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - Criticism - 1928 - 406 pages
...meaning ; where he writes " fancy " we are justified in reading " imagination." Thus he says that " imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless,...that, like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs (rhyme) tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment " ; and he continues : " the fancy then gives leisure... | |
 | Fredericus Theodorus Visser - English language - 2002 - 688 pages
...seems to be redundant). | 1664 Dryden, Rival Ladies (Wks. ed. Scott/ Saintsb. Vol. II) Dedic. 138, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment (Söderl.). | 1667 Milton, PL 7, 546, And govern well thy appetite, least sin Surprise thee. | 1671... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1964 - 513 pages
...accordance with Dryden's injunction that imagination '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.' Thus the great tragedies became the tragic victims of the new literary atmosphere of common sense.... | |
 | Jacob Opper - Art and science - 1973 - 234 pages
...qualifications. Dryden, for example, wrote that imagination "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."16 Boileau similarly writes that "the law governing art as such is not derived from and produced... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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. (Epistle Dedicatory of The Rival Ladies.) As Dryden grew older and his criticism became more relaxed... | |
 | James Boyd White - Law - 1985 - 328 pages
...discordant qualities." That is not the only possible view of such matters. Dryden, for example, said that "imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless...have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment." Dedication to The Rival Ladies ( 1664) . Does the conflict between imagination and judgment constitute... | |
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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. 
