...most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Matured in dulness from his tender years : Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." In the execution of The Hind and the Panther, Dryden exerted his utmost power, for he was to justify...

...most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's...

...perfect image bears, Mature in dullness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, was he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest...pretence ; But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's...

...perfect image bears, Mature in duincss from his tender years : Shadwell, alone, of all my sous, was he* Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence; But Shad welt nev(rd >viates into sense, Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and...

...MacFlecknoe," against his supplanter, whom he bitterly and severely attacks. In it he says : — " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Dryden was now obliged to write for the stage again. All his sources of regular income were gone; and...

...most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed...stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, Bat Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and...

...Earlswood seemed rational, and Bedlam wise. I could not help repeating Dryden's famous couplet — " The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." The damsel failed to recognise the quotation, and went on her way, laughing derisively. Through dark, devious...

...fair idea of what Dryden had in his mind when he poured the torrent of his wrath upon Shadwell : — The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. There is scarcely a page of this work which is not disfigured by some incredible blunder of translation,...

...years: Shadwell, alone, my perfect image bears, Shadwell, alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stauds confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Sliadwell never deviates 1 into sense. Strike through, and make a lucid interval; Some beams of wit...

...forget the fault : — Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. And so he is chosen by the Prince as his successor, and is made to swear That he till death true dulness...