"Exigence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... constantly to be worse, as his labour is more. The effusions of passion, which exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetick; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his throes is tumour, meanness, tediousness, ...
— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith |
