 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire .of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mix-* ing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our'neighbours. > This being granted... | |
 | 1823 - 616 pages
...Thus insensibly our way of living became more free; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained melancholy way of breeding,...force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the art and gaiety of our neighbours. This being granted to be true, it would be a wonder if the poets,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...Thus insensibly our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained melancholy way of breeding,...force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the art and gaiety of our neighbours. This being granted to be true, it would be a wonder if the poets,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...of the English \vit, \vhichwas before etiiled under a constrained melancholv way of breeding, begau " 5 ۵ Ȝ ަճfa i A 5 S Qo 6 x w 7 Z " +DRfS j c 1 D< b neighbour?. This beim' erauted to "be true, it would be a wonder if the poets, whose work is imitation,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 pages
...insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,...mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gayety of our neighbours. This being granted to be true, it would be a wonder if the poets, whose work... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained melancholy way of breeding, began to display its force by mixing the solidity of our...nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours." And the change in discourse passed without difficulty into literature, calling into being a nimbler... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained melancholy way of breeding, began to display its force by mixing the solidity of our...nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours." And the change in discourse passed without difficulty into literature, calling into being a nimbler... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 pages
...of English wit, which ' was before stifled under a constrained melancholy way of breeding, ' began to display its force by mixing the solidity of our...nation ' with the air and gaiety of our neighbours.' And the change in discourse passed without difficulty into literature, calling into being u nimbler... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 pages
...fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained melancholy way of breeding, began to display its force by mixing the solidity of our...nation with .the air and gaiety of our neighbours." And the change in discourse passed without difficulty into literature, calling into being a nimbler... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 pages
...fire of English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained melancholy way of breeding, began to display its force by mixing the solidity of our...nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours." And the change in discourse passed without difficulty into literature, calling into being a nimbler... | |
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... dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the... 
