 | 1803 - 376 páginas
...This Mr. Dryden calls ' the fairy way of writing,' which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no pattern to follow in it, and must >>ork altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...This Mr. Dryden calls " the fairy way of writing," which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing, and it is impossible for a poet... | |
 | 1804 - 412 páginas
...wore difficult than any other that depends on the VOL. ii. p poet's poet's fancy, liecause he lias no pattern to follow in it, and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing, and it is impossible for a poet... | |
 | John Black - 1806 - 258 páginas
...only the greatest poets to support me in my choice of this subject, but likewise the ablest crities. Mr Addison employs a paper in the Spectator (419)...have introduced into pastorals, says of Shakespeare, " Me saw, I suppose, that pastoral subjects were unfit to bear a tragic distress. And besides, when,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1818 - 918 páginas
...The fairy way of writing, as Mr. Drjden calls it, I» more difficult than any other that depende upon the poet's fancy, because he has no pattern to follow in it. AnoisoN. Sir Knigtil, that doral thai »oyage rashly take, By this forbidden way in my despight, Doest... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 páginas
...spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls ' the fairy way of writing,' which is indeed more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing; and it is impossible for a poet... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 páginas
...spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls ' the fairy way of writing,' which is indeed more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing ; and it is impossible for a... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 páginas
...spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls ' the fairy way of writing,' which is indeed more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing ; and it is impossible for a... | |
 | 1824 - 268 páginas
...spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls the fairy way of writing, which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...must •work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing; and it is impossible for a poet... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 páginas
...This Mr. Dryden calls " the fairy way of writing ; " which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing, and it is impossible for a poet... | |
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... with the characters and actions of such persons as have, many of them, no existence but what he bestows on them. Such are fairies, witches, magicians, demons, and departed spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls "the fairy way of writing... 
