 Thus prose, though the rightful prince, yet is by common consent deposed, as too weak for the government of serious plays ; and he failing, there now start up two competitors ; one the nearer in blood, which is blank verse; the other more fit for the...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 270by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...vile. You see in CATILINE and SEJANUS, where the argument is great, he sometimes ascends to verse,5 which shews he thought it not unnatural in serious...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...vile. You see in CATILINE and SBJANUS, where the argument is great, he sometimes ascends to verse, 1 which shews he thought it not unnatural in serious...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...was for humour, or had the age in which he lived attained to as much knowledge in verse as ours, itis probable he would have adorned those subjects with...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...probable he would have adorned those subjects with that kind of writing. Thus prose," he finely says, " though the rightful prince, yet is by common consent...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 pages
...he hath made an excellent lazar of it ; the copy is of price, though the original be vile. Youseein "Catiline" and "Sejanus," where the argument is great,...more fit for the ends of government, which is Rhyme. Blank Verse is, indeed, the nearer Prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...probable he would have adorned those subjects with that kind of writing. Thus prose," he finely says, " though the rightful prince, yet is by common consent...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...probable he would have adorned those subjects with that kind of writing. Thus prose," he finely says, " though the rightful prince, yet is by common consent...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...probable he would have adorned those subjects with that kind of writing. Thus prose," he finely says, "though the rightful prince, yet is by common consent...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessors.... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1868 - 690 pages
...and must be such as, strictly considered, could never be supposed spoken by any without premeditation Thus prose, though the rightful prince, yet is by...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme. Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1898 - 396 pages
...and must be such as, strictly considered, could never be supposed spoken by any without premeditation Thus prose, though the rightful prince, yet is by...more fit for the ends of government, which is rhyme* Blank verse is, indeed, the nearer prose, but he is blemished with the weakness of his predecessor.... | |
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