 I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : — ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize the Baltic ocean, To glaze the lakes, to bridle up the...  The Quarterly Review - Page 374edited by - 1861Full view - About this book
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 882 pages
...Dryden tells us, in the dedication to the Spanish Fryar, that " when a boy he thought the admirable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas," and " was wrapt into an ecstacy when he read these lines : ' " ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize the Baltic ocean,... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 830 pages
...Dryden tells us, in the dedication to the Spanish Fryar, that " when a boy he thought the admirable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas," and " was wrapt into an ec*tacy when he read these lines : " ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize the... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...which Sylvester's Du Bartas was held as late as 1650. "I remember, when I was a boy," says Dryden, " I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt into ecstasy when I read these lines : — ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize... | |
 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...of Dryden's, in which he owns to the same influence. " I can remember," he says, " when I was a boy, I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt in ecstacy when I read these lines : — ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallise... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 pages
...Court, and Sylvester reputadon of became a laurelled poet mainly upon the strength of its duration, his English version of the ' Divine Weeks ' and the...comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was wrapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : " ' Now, when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize the... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1868 - 690 pages
...Shakespeare. " I remember when I was a boy," he Bays in his dedication of the " Spanish Friar," 1681, " I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : — ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...Shakespeare. " I remember when I was a boy," he says in his dedication of the "Spanish Friar," 1681, " I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : — " ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1898 - 396 pages
...Shakespeare. " I remember when I was a boy," he says in his dedication of the " Spanish Friar, " 1681, " I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du flartas, and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : — 4 Now when the winter's keener... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1874 - 400 pages
...Shakespeare. " I remember when I was a boy," he says in his dedication of the "Spanish Friar," 1681, " I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : — ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallizejthe... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...which Sylvester's Du Bartas was held as late as 1G50. "I remember, when I was a boy," says Dryden, "I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt into ecstasy when I read these lines : — ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize... | |
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