 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 страници
...He affccts_the metaphysics ', says Dryden, ' not only in his satires but in hfclfmorous verses-where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds...hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love.' Amorous verses ', ' the fair sex ', and ' the softnesses of love ' are the vulgarities of a less poetic... | |
 | Henry Telford Stonor Forrest - 1923 - 284 страници
...keeping of accent deserved hanging," and with Dryden's just criticism, that " he affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses,...reign : and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with the speculations of philosophy, where he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 страници
...read you 20 both with the same admiration, but not with the same delight. He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses,...with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should 25 engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love. In this (if I may be pardoned... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 страници
...epithet, first applied by Dryden to the poetry of Donne (qq.v.) : ' Donne affects the metaphysics, not only in his Satires, but in his amorous verses, where Nature only should reign ' (Dedication to Juvenal, 1693), and made famous by Dr. Johnson (qv), who extended it in his essay... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 страници
..."the conditional //' in order to qualify his seemingly unqualified claims. 18. Donne, said Dryden, "perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love" (A Discourse .... in Essays of John Dryden, ed. Ker, 2:19). 19. JEV Crofts, "John... | |
 | Julia Ashtiany - 1990 - 552 страници
...is illuminating. In a famous passage in his Discourse Concerning Satire, Dryden complains that Donne "perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, where he should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softness of love". Similarly, al-madhhab... | |
 | Alan Carroll Purves - 1991 - 186 страници
...literary obscurity that I know is that of John Dryden about the poems of John Donne, who, he claimed, "perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love" (Dryden, 1693/1962: 76). Dryden accuses Donne of a breach of decorum with respect... | |
 | Wolfgang Iser - 1993 - 254 страници
...Garden City 1956), pp. 36-179. 23. See John Dryden's judgment of Donne: "He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses,...should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softness of love." In Essays II, ed. by WP Ker (New York 1961), p. 19. 24. See Geoffrey Tillotson,... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 страници
...to make it better.40 Donne was criticized by Dryden for the fact that he 'affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses,...reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with the nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the... | |
 | Roger D. Sell, Peter Verdonk - 1994 - 278 страници
...explains how, seven years before his death, Dryden could write of Donne: He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses,...hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love (Gardner 1957: 15). How wonderful this is! — from the man whose wife wished that she were a book... | |
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He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with... 
