 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 570 páginas
...to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the...the luxuriance of Fletcher, (which his friends have tax'd in him,) a less fault than the carelessness of Shakspere. 30 He does not well always; and, when... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 páginas
...to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. . . . Let us therefore admire the beauties and the height of Shakespeare, without falling after him... | |
 | Otto Diede - 1912 - 152 páginas
...writer of ours, or any precedent age . . . He is the very Janus of poets, he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." — Wie bei ihm die Nachlässigkeit, so sei bei Fletcher die „luxuriance" zu tadeln: „If he wakes... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1923 - 440 páginas
...He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears, almost everywhere, two faces : and you have scarce began to admire the one, ere you despise the other. Neither...Shakespeare. He does not well always, and, when he does, fieTs a true Englishman ; he knows not when to give over. If he wakes in one scene he commonly slumbers... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1926 - 666 páginas
...any poet, in any language," is nevertheless " the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces, and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." — "Defence of the Epilogue"; WP Ker, " Essays of John Dryden," Oxford, 1900, 2 vols. 8vo, vol. ip... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 páginas
...written better than any poet, in any language ... is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." Similarly Dryden finds many faults among ancient writers, but yet holds them to be the best teachers... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 páginas
...any precedent Age. Never did any Author precipitate himself from such heights of thought to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus...the Luxuriance of Fletcher, (which his friends have tax'd in him,) a less fault than the carelessness of Shakespear. He does not well always, and, when... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 páginas
...cold and irreverent: Never did any Author precipitate himself from such heights of thought to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus...begun to admire the one, e're you despise the other. 16 Jonson and Fletcher are treated with even less favour: much of the early praise Dryden had lavished... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 páginas
...Poesy (1668). said of the Bard of Avon: "He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." Quite a different application of the god's name occurs when René, the page of Lady Blanche in Balzac's... | |
 | Judith Woolf - 2005 - 188 páginas
...native wood-notes wild'.33 John Dryden called him 'the very Janus of Poets; he wears, almost everywhere two faces: and you have scarce begun to admire the one e're you despise the other'.34 Samuel Johnson thought of him as 'the poet who holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour... | |
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He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. 
