 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 páginas
...vol. ii. p. 38, 1. 4. 2 See p. 168 below, and note there. 3 ' I have heard him frequently own with pleasure that if he had any talent for English prose,...read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson.' Congreve, Dedication of Dryden's Dramatic Works. there were others ; before all, there was Cowley,... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1902 - 266 páginas
...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,...read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." But of this simplicity in arrangement and style we have long had numerous examples, some of them comparatively... | |
 | Mary Jane Taber - 1904 - 452 páginas
...perfection. His style was practical, and remarkable for simplicity and clearness. Dryden declared, if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of this great man. Tillotson asked the actor Betterton how it came about that, after he had written the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 544 páginas
...the new age and the old, between wit and poetry, between reason and imagination. Dryden's statement that ' if he had any talent for English prose it was...having often read the writings of the great archbishop Tilloteon' must be regarded as a piece of generous exaggeration. At the most, he can only have learnt... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 200 páginas
...to hold immoderately high the dignity of that sacer1 ' I have frequently heard him (Drydeu) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose...read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson.' — Congreve's Dedication of Dryden's Plays. dotal office which was his single title to reverence.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 198 páginas
...to hold immoderately high the dignity of that sacer1 ' I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose...having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotsou.' — Congreve's Dedication of Dryden's Plays. dotal office which was his single title to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 194 páginas
...to hold immoderately high the dignity of that sacer1 ' I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose it was owing to his y having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillot-- son.' — Congreve's Dedication of... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 páginas
...ornaments proper and peculiar to it, without deviating into the language or diction of poetry. . . . His versification and his numbers he could learn of...possessed those talents in perfection in our tongue. And they, who have best succeeded in them since his time, have been indebted to his example. . . .... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 páginas
...Congreve in his Dedication of Dryden's Plays says : ' I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose...having often read the writings of the great Archbishop TiUotson.' Mr. E. Gosse remarks that this compliment ' has given the archbishop far too exalted a place... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 534 páginas
...the new age and the old, between wit and poetry, between reason and imagination. Dryden's statement that' if he had any talent for English prose it was...read the writings of the great archbishop Tillotson' must be regarded as a piece of generous exaggeration. At the most, he can only have learnt from him... | |
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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 Archbishop Tillotson. 
