 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1852 - 546 pages
...founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. f " I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose it was owing to his having often read the writirga of the great Archbishop Tillotson." Congreve's Dedication «fDryden'» Plays. (ion was destined... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...examples of more modes of composition were necessary for the establishment of regu163 I have heard Dryden frequently own with pleasure that if he had any talent...to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson. — CONCRETE: Dedication to Ihike of Newcastle. Gray, who thought the prose of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...examples of more m«fe' of composition were necessary for the establishment of regu163 I have heard Dryden frequently own with pleasure that if he had any talent for English prone, it was owing to his having often read the writfap " the great Archbishop Tillotson. — f'osoKEVE:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...the clearness imaginahle, together with al the nohleness of expression, all the graces and ornaments proper and peculiar to it, without deviating into the language or diction of poetry. I make this ohservation only to distinguish his style from that of many poetical writers, who meaning... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 816 pages
...scarlet hoods. The very consciousness that there was little * " I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English...to his having often read the writings of the great Arch bishop Tillotson." — Congreve's Dedication of Dryden's Plays. in his worldly circumstances to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1866 - 510 pages
...reverence. Having lived in seclusion, and having had little oppor1 "I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English...to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." Congreve's Dedication of Dryden'a Plays. tunity of correcting his opinions by... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...little vigour or vivacity in his style." — Hallam, Lit. of Europe, iii. 297. " I have heard Dryden frequently own with pleasure that if he had any talent...to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." — Cungreve. " Tillotson's manner of writing is inimitable, for one who reads... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 476 pages
...to his encomium : — " I have heard him frequently own with pleasure that if he had any talent in English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." It is a pity that such frequent perusal should have kept him insensible to the... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...brightest ornaments of the Church of England. — Dr. Maeleline. I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his often having read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson. — Congreve. Of all the members... | |
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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. 
