...spleen." Nothing can be falser than the idea intended to be conveyed in the following couplet : " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Mr. Shadwell was far inferior to Dryden ; but Shadwell did not write nonsense. Many of his couxdies...

...h< Should onry rule who most resembles me. Shadwell. alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years; Shadwell alone, of all my sons,...Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity: The rest to eome faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. to Eome beams of wit on other...

...Shadwell, of which he has given proof in his bitterest satire called Mac-Fleckno, where he says, " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Yet all \ve learn hence is, that a satirist never pays the least regard to truth when it interferes...

...[stupiditf, French; sJup'uiitas, Latin.] Dulnrss; heaviness of mind ; sluggishness of understanding. Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he "Who stands confirm'd in full stufijity. Drydcn. STU'PIDLY. adv. [from stupid.] I. With suspension or inactivity of understanding....

...he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in lull stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense....

...question, though his abilities have been so often contemned. Dryden, lashing him, says — " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense-." When the lord chamberlain was asked why he did not give the poet's crown to a superior genius, he replied,...

...Should only rule, who most resembles rnr . Shadwell alone my perfect image bears. Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone, of all my...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. SO Some beams of wit on other souls may fall. Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But Shadwell's...

...in dulness from his tender years ; "j" Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning...make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense ; * Note I. t Note II. VOL, x. % E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make...

...Mature in dulness from his tender years ; f Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense; • Note I. t Not* II. VOL, X. 2 E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make...

...he Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; '(" Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates...