 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks them necessary to raise it ; but to use them at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor,...is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. I must be forced to give an example of expressing passion figuratively ; but that I may do... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...• use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks them necessary to raise it ; but to use them at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor,...is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. I must be forced to give an example of expressing passion figuratively ; but that I may do... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 500 pages
...the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks them necessary to raise it: but to use them at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor, a simile, an image, of description, is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. I must be forced to give... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 522 pages
...the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks them necessary to raise it : but to use them at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor,...is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. I must be forced to give an example of expressing passion figuratively ; but that I may do... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pages
...the use of metaphors from passion, forLonginus thinks them necessary to raise it ; but to use them at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor,...is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. As we have seen, there was in Dryden's day some ground, some plausible excuse at least, for... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 544 pages
...the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks them necessary to raise it : but to use them at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor,...is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. I must be forced to give an example of expressing passion figuratively ; but that I may do... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 548 pages
...the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks them necessary to raise it : but to use them at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor,...is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. I must be forced to give an example of expressing passion figuratively ; but that I may do... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 pages
...the violence of a catachresis. It is not that I would 30 explode the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks 'em necessary to raise it : but...is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. I must be forced to give an example of expressing passion figuratively ; but that I may do... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 pages
...the violence of a catachresis. It is not that I would 30 explode the use of metaphors from passion, for Longinus thinks 'em necessary to raise it : but to use 'em at qvery word, to say nothing without a metaphor, a simile, an image, or description, is, I doubt, to... | |
 | Emile Legouis - 1912 - 168 pages
...l'artifice et dénonce l'intervention du poète. Dryden s'en était aperçu : "To use 'em [metaphore] at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor,...is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin.' 1 Il est un autre danger. Attiré par la succession rapide de menus tableaux qu'évoquent... | |
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em necessary to raise it; but to use 'em at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor, a simile, an image or description, is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin. 
