 | Charles Lamb - 1808 - 512 pagina’s
...completion to which I dare no more than hint a reference. Ford was of the first order of Poets. He soughtfor sublimity not by parcels in metaphors or visible images,...residence in the heart of man ; in the actions and sufferingi of the greatest minds. There is a grandeur of the soul above mountains, seas, and the elements.... | |
 | John Ford - 1811 - 522 pagina’s
...confined himself to a kind of metaphysical definition of the genius of his favourite poet : " Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images from nature, but directly where she has her full residence, in the heart of man ; in the actions and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1813 - 508 pagina’s
...completion to which I dare no more than hint a reference. Ford was of the first order of Poets. He songhtfor sublimity not by parcels in metaphors or visible images,...residence in the heart of man ; in the actions and suffering! of the greatest minds. There is a grandeur of the soul above mountains, seas, and the elements.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pagina’s
...and the real agonies of that final completion to which we dare no more than hint a reference. Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity,...the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds. There is a grandeur of the soul above mountains, seas, and the elements. Even in the poor perverted... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pagina’s
...works he is now engaged, he cannot be better characterised than in the words of Charles Lamb ; " Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity...in metaphors or visible images, but directly where sne has her full residence in the heart of man ; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 522 pagina’s
...>' Of this dramatist Mr. Lamb, in a note to a scene from his Broken Heart, has justly said that " he was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity...the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds." striking difference perceivable between Fletcher and Shakspeare, is the fondness of the former for... | |
 | 1829 - 348 pagina’s
...works he is now engaged, he cannot be better characterised than in the words of Charles Lamb ; " Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity...the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds. There is a grandeur of the soul above mountains, seas, and the elments." The Royal Society of Literature... | |
 | 1831 - 512 pagina’s
...entertains the following opinion : " Ford was of the first order of poets ; he sought for •ublimity, not by parcels, in metaphors, or visible images, but...the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds." The other two productions are by Nathaniel Field, and bear the following quaint titles, " Amends for... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1831 - 594 pagina’s
...Sacrifice; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Pvrkin Warbeck ; and Tbe Broken Heart. "Ford (says Charles Lamb) was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity...images, but directly where she has her full residence in tbe heart of man ; in the action* and sufferings of the greatest minds." FORDUN, JOHN DE, a Scotch... | |
 | John Ford - 1831 - 396 pagina’s
...her nature, keeps closely covered till the last duties of a wife and a queen are fulfilled But Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity,...metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has full residence in the heart of man, in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds." — LAMB'S... | |
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Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels, in metaphors, or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man ; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds. 
