... originality, and less even of that extreme simplicity and lowliness of tone which wavered so prettily, in the Lyrical Ballads, between silliness and pathos. We have imitations of Cowper, and even of Milton here; engrafted on the natural drawl of the... The Quarterly Review - Pagina 249geredigeerd door - 1898Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1852 - 798 pagina’s
...Milton here, engrafted on tlie natural drawl of tlie Lakers — and all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges...and weakens the whole structure of their style." The "natural drawl of the Lakers," if applicable to him, can be applicable only to Wordsworth. Southey... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 pagina’s
...Milton, here, engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers, — and all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges...lubricates and weakens the whole structure of their style." Then the critic informs us, that, if he were to describe the volume very shortly, he should characterize... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pagina’s
...Milton here ; engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers — and all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges...lubricates and weakens the whole structure of their style. Though it fairly fills four hundred and twenty good quarto pages, without note, vignette, or any sort... | |
| 1852 - 818 pagina’s
...Milton here, engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers — and all diluted into narmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges...and weakens the whole structure of their style." The " natural drawl of the Lakers," if applicable to him, can be applicable only to Wordsworth. Southey... | |
| 1852 - 840 pagina’s
...dilnted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges all the blank verse of Ms school of poetry, and lubricates and weakens the whole structure of their style." The "natural drawl of the Lakers," if applicable to him, can be applicable ouly to Wordsworth. Sonthey... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 pagina’s
...Milton, here, engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers, — and all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges...lubricates and weakens the whole structure of their style." Then the critic informs us, that, if he were to describe the volume very shortly, he should characterize... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1867 - 526 pagina’s
...engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers, and all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irresistible wordiness which deluges all the blank verse of this...lubricates and weakens the whole structure of their style. From these wide contrasts of opinion, deliberately expressed by two of the most noted critics of any... | |
| Walter Hamilton - 1879 - 348 pagina’s
...Milton here, engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers — and all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges...and weakens the whole structure of their style. The case of Mr. Wordsworth, we perceive, is now manifestly hopeless ; and we give him up as altogether... | |
| Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 214 pagina’s
...of Milton here, engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers—and all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges...weakens the whole structure of their style. . . . The case of Mr. Wordsworth, we perceive, is now manifestly hopeless; and we give him up as altogether incurable,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1894 - 282 pagina’s
...Milton here ; engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakers — and all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges...lubricates and weakens the whole structure of their style. 10 Though it fairly fills four hundred and twenty good quarto pages, without note, vignette, or any... | |
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