 | Thomas James Mathias - 1808 - 684 páginas
...would consider with attention the emphatic words of the Duke of Buckingham in his Essay on. Poetry. " But to write Plays! — why, 'tis a bold pretence " To judgment, breeding, wit, and eloqufnco; " Nay more; for they must look within, to find '• Those secret turns of nature in th«... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1808 - 682 páginas
...would consider with attention the emphatic words of the Duke of Buckingham in his Essay on Poetry, " But to write Plays! — why, 'tis a bold pretence " To judgment, breeding, wit, ajd eloquence; " Nay more; for they must look within, to find " Those secret turns of nature in the... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...tanght ? Some wit they have, and therefore may deserve A better course than this, by which they starve : But to write plays ! why, 'tis a bold pretence To...breeding, wit, and eloquence : Nay more ; for they must look within, to find Those secret turns of nature in the mind : Without this part, in vain would... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 páginas
...taught? Some wit they have, and therefore may deserve A better course than this, by which they starve : But to write plays ! why, 'tis a bold pretence To...breeding, wit, and eloquence : Nay more ; for they must look within, to find Those secret turns of nature in the mind : Without this part, in vain would... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 páginas
...Some wit they have, and therefore may deserve A better course than this, by which they starve : Bat to write plays ! why, 'tis a bold pretence To judgment,...breeding, wit, and eloquence : Nay, more ; for they must look within, to find Those secret turns of nature in the mind : Without this part, in vain would... | |
 | 1849 - 606 páginas
...a still higher estimate of his powers, if we receive the opinion of his Grace of Buckingham: " That to write plays, why, 'tis a bold pretence To judgment,...breeding, wit, and eloquence ; Nay more, for they must look within to find The secret turn of nature in the mind." The hardihood of the venture in the... | |
 | 1849 - 588 páginas
...still higher estimate of his powers, if we receive the opinion of his Grace of Buckingham : " That mes Agnew must look within to find The secret turn of nature in the mind." The hardihood of the venture in the... | |
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tis a bold pretence To judgment, breeding, wit, and eloquence : Nay more ; for they muft look within, to find Thofe fecret turns of nature in the mind : Without this part, in vain would be the whole, And but a body all, without a foul. 
