 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...This Mr. Dryden calls ' the fairy way of writing,' which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no pattern to follow in it, and must >>ork altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...This Mr. Dryden calls " the fairy way of writing," which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing, and it is impossible for a poet... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...wore difficult than any other that depends on the VOL. ii. p poet's poet's fancy, liecause he lias no pattern to follow in it, and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing, and it is impossible for a poet... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...only the greatest poets to support me in my choice of this subject, but likewise the ablest critics. Mr Addison employs a paper in the Spectator (419)...have introduced into pastorals, says of Shakespeare, " He saw, T suppose, that pastoral subjects were unfit to bear a tragic distress. And besides, when... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1818 - 918 pages
...The fairy way of writing, as Mr. Drjden calls it, I» more difficult than any other that depende upon the poet's fancy, because he has no pattern to follow in it. AnoisoN. Sir Knigtil, that doral thai »oyage rashly take, By this forbidden way in my despight, Doest... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 342 pages
...spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls ' the fairy way of writing,' which is indeed more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing; and it is impossible for a poet... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls ' the fairy way of writing,' which is indeed more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing ; and it is impossible for a... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls ' the fairy way of writing,' which is indeed more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing ; and it is impossible for a... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 pages
...spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls the fairy way of writing, which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...must •work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing; and it is impossible for a poet... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...This Mr. Dryden calls " the fairy way of writing ; " which is, indeed, more difficult than any other that depends on the poet's fancy, because he has no...and must work altogether out of his own invention. There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing, and it is impossible for a poet... | |
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... with the characters and actions of such persons as have, many of them, no existence but what he bestows on them. Such are fairies, witches, magicians, demons, and departed spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls "the fairy way of writing... 
