 | David Harrison Stevens - 1923 - 938 pages
...his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name: 14 NTIDIUS. I bring him news will raise his drooping...spirits, Give him new life. GENTLEMAN. He sees not Cleopa polished, more unskilled, Does, with disdain, the foremost honors yield. As with the greater dead he... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1925 - 662 pages
...prologue to Aureng-Zebe. But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed, when he hears his godlike Romans...just despair would quit the stage; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield." In the eighteenth century... | |
 | Albert Harris Tolman - 1925 - 300 pages
...refined than his own: But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...just despair would quit the stage; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honors yield.1 Dryden believed in conforming... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pages
...shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his godlike Romans rage, 15 He in a just despair would quit the stage ; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 108 pages
...doubt: But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his Breast at Shakespear's sacred name: Aw'd when he hears his Godlike Romans rage, He in a just despair would quite the Stage; And to an Age less polish'd, more unskill'd, Does with disdain the foremost Honours... | |
 | Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - 1976 - 200 pages
...Parnassus: But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespear's sacred name: Aw'd when he hears his Godlike Romans rage, He, in a just...unskill'd. Does, with disdain the foremost Honours yield. (11. 13-18) The lines are followed by the comment that while he will not strive with the 'greater dead',... | |
 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 pages
...his: But spite of all his pride a secret shame, Invades his breast at Shakespear's sacred Name: Aw'd when he hears his Godlike Romans rage, He, in a just despair, would quit the Stage. Significantly, his next play returns not only to blank verse but to Shakespeare's Romans cast in a... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...most correct of his: But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name: Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...despair, would quit the stage. And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 pages
...; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name: Aw'd when he hears his godlike Romans rage, He in a just despair would quit the stage; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he... | |
 | Daniel James Ennis, Judith Bailey Slagle - 2007 - 272 pages
...Dryden goes on to confess that he is "Awed when he hears [Shakespeare's] godlike Romans rage," and in a just despair, would quit the stage, And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honors yield. (Prologue, 13-18) Finally, it... | |
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What verse can do he has perform'd in this, Which he presumes the most correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at... 
