 English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free; and the fire of the English wit, which was...  Quarterly Review - Página 2081823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 páginas
...awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them...force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours.* This being * This passage, though complimentary to Charles, contains... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 páginas
...first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them...force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours. This being granted to be true, it would be a wonder if the poets,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 páginas
...first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation,' and made...force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours. This being granted to be true, it would be a wonder if the poets,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 páginas
...first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their native reservedness; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thug, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was before... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 páginas
...awakened the 15 dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them...more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which 20 was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 páginas
...awakened the 15 dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them...more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which 20 was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force,... | |
 | William Edward Bohn - 1907 - 98 páginas
...awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them...our way of living became more free ; and the fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 544 páginas
...Dryden in his Defence of the Epilogue (1672), 'of imitating so great a pattern loosened' the English 'from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse.' And, of Charles II, Halifax says that his wit ' consisted chiefly in the quickness of his apprehension.'... | |
 | 1892 - 1058 páginas
...awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them...our way of living became more free ; and the fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first... | |
 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 570 páginas
...first waken'd the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reserv'dness ; loosen'd them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them...the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrain'd, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of... | |
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