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" The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. "
An Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea and Its Environs ... - Page 118
by Thomas Faulkner - 1810 - 459 pages
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry ..., Volumes 16-18

John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...spleen." Nothing can be falser than the idea intended to be conveyed in the following couplet : " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Mr. Shadwell was far inferior to Dryden ; but Shadwell did not write nonsense. Many of his couxdies...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...h< Should onry rule who most resembles me. Shadwell. alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years; Shadwell alone, of all my sons,...Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity: The rest to eome faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. to Eome beams of wit on other...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

English essays - 1803 - 410 pages
...Shadwell, of which he has given proof in his bitterest satire called Mac-Fleckno, where he says, " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Yet all \ve learn hence is, that a satirist never pays the least regard to truth when it interferes...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...[stupiditf, French; sJup'uiitas, Latin.] Dulnrss; heaviness of mind ; sluggishness of understanding. Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he "Who stands confirm'd in full stufijity. Drydcn. STU'PIDLY. adv. [from stupid.] I. With suspension or inactivity of understanding....
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Poetical Works

John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...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 confirm'd in lull stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense....
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A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End ..., Volume 1

Mark Noble - Great Britain - 1806 - 424 pages
...question, though his abilities have been so often contemned. Dryden, lashing him, says — " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense-." When the lord chamberlain was asked why he did not give the poet's crown to a superior genius, he replied,...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 21

John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...Should only rule, who most resembles rnr . Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. SO Some beams of wit on other souls may fall. Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But Shadwell's...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 474 pages
...in dulness from his tender years ; "j" Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning...make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense ; * Note I. t Note II. VOL, x. % E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make...
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The Works of John Dryden,: Religio laici, or a Layman's Faith, an epistle ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pages
...Mature in dulness from his tender years ; f Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense; • Note I. t Not* II. VOL, X. 2 E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 10

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 480 pages
...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 faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates...
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