 | John Albert Broadus - Preaching - 1876 - 264 pages
...Addisonian period, the transition is made by Tillotson. Macaulay relates that Dryden was frequently heard to "own with pleasure that, if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to hjs having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." But of this simplicity in arrangement... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 532 pages
...the clearness imaginable, together with all the nobleness of expression, all the graces and ornaments proper and peculiar to it, without deviating into the language or diction of poetry .... His versification and his numbers he could learn of nobody, for he first possessed those talents... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 556 pages
...the clearness imaginable, together with all the nobleness of expression, all the graces and ornaments proper and peculiar to it, without deviating into the language or diction of poetry .... His versification and his numbers he could learn of nobody, for he first possessed those talents... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...the clearness imaginable, together with all the nobleness of expression, all the graces and ornaments in ; but that which it oftenest, if not only, misleads...conclude, the grounds upon which we bottom our reasoning of English prose, it was owing to his' having often read the writings of the great ArchMshop Tillotson.... | |
 | David Thomas - 1879 - 448 pages
...and his metaphors deficient in dignity." It is in strong confirmation of Macaulay that Dryden owned, that if he h'ad any talent for English prose, it was...to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotsou. The condensation of a sermon we subjoin will well illustrate this criticism.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...expression, alt the graces and ornaments proper and peculiar to it, without deviating into the Innguage itsi-lf, kills the image of God, as it were, in thu eye. of English prose, it was owing to his having oltcn read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson.... | |
 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...Dryden, though far inferior in style, he had the best of the argument ; 1 Dryden is said to have "owned with pleasure that if he had any talent for English...was owing to his having often read the writings of Archbishop Tillotson." This is but a random compliment ; Dryden showed his talent for English prose... | |
 | John Dryden, Oliver Goldsmith - 1882 - 314 pages
...closely agrees with that of Dryden, who, as Congreve reports, " frequently owned with pleasure thut if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing...to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotsou." — Preface to Dryden' 's plays. Dr. Isaac Barrow was almost equally eminent... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 526 pages
...the clearness imaginable, together with all the nobleness of expression; all the graces and ornaments proper and peculiar to it, without deviating into the language or diction of poetry. I make this observation, only to distinguish his style from that of many poetical writers, who, meaning... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...thought to have been splendidly remunerated." Dryden, it may be mentioned, is said " to have owned with pleasure that if he had any talent for English...was owing to his having often read the writings of Archbishop Tillotson." But Dryden had written excellent prose before Tillotson appeared as an author,... | |
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I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great archhishop Tillotson. 
