 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 508 páginas
...poetical father Dryden faid of another, who deferved not fuch a panegyric fo juftly as our author: " HE INVADES AUTHORS LIKE A MONARCH, AND WHAT WOULD BE THEFT IN OTHER POETS, IS ONLY VICTORY IN HIM *." For indeed he never works on the fame fubjecl with another, without heightening the piece with... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 2003 - 358 páginas
...derives from literary precedents, some of them very well known. Dryden famously observed that Jonson 'invades authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him'.79 This is as true of Epicene as it is of other works, though we should note the acute paradox... | |
 | Katherine Romack, James Fitzmaurice - 2006 - 244 páginas
..."He was deeply conversant in the Ancients, both Greek and Latine. and he borrow'd boldly from them. . .But he has done his Robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any Law" (Critical Heritage, p. 253). Masten appears to lay the critique of Jonson's borrowing at the feet of... | |
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But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him. 
