 Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who 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 in full stupidity. The rest to some...  The Forum - Page 746edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 708 pages
...all ihe realms of Nonsense absolute," chose in his last days Shadwell for successor: " Shadwell alono of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." The coronation of Shadwell was in the Nursery nt Barbican, a theatre established in IfiGi... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...with wit, Cried, ' 'Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...with wit, Cried, ' 'Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Matured in dulness from his tender years : Shadwell alone,...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." In the execution of The Hind and the Panther, Dryden exerted his utmost power, for he... | |
 | Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 348 pages
...take the following from Mac Flecknoe : — ' Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, M ut mv in dnlness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through .and make a lucid interval ;... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...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...meaning make pretence ; But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ;... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 pages
...Nonsense absolute," chose in his last days Shadwell for successor : " Shadwell alone of all my sons is lie Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to...meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." The coronation of Shadwell was in the Nursery at Barbican, a theatre established in 1662... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...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... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...Should only rule, who most resembles me. is Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Mature in dullness from his tender years : Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirm' d in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, 20 But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Authors, English - 1881 - 216 pages
...wit, Cried—" "Tis resolved ! for nature pleads, that he Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness...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... | |
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