The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume IIDonald Reiman First published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of the Lake Poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Lamb, in publications from the Edinburgh Review to Variety. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names, dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. |
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Page 416
... language and verification , interchanged occafionally with the innocence of Ambrofe Philips , or the quaintnefs of Quarles and Dr Donne . From the diligent ftudy of thefe few originals , we have no doubt that an entire art of poetry may ...
... language and verification , interchanged occafionally with the innocence of Ambrofe Philips , or the quaintnefs of Quarles and Dr Donne . From the diligent ftudy of thefe few originals , we have no doubt that an entire art of poetry may ...
Page 417
... language of the higher and more cultivated orders may fairly be prefumed to be better than that of their inferiors : at any rate , it has all thofe affociations in its favour , by means of which , a ftyle can never appear beautiful or ...
... language of the higher and more cultivated orders may fairly be prefumed to be better than that of their inferiors : at any rate , it has all thofe affociations in its favour , by means of which , a ftyle can never appear beautiful or ...
Page 418
... language , there is nothing that appears to them fo meritorious as perpetual exaggeration of thought . There muft be nothing moderate , natural , or eafy , about their fentiments . There must be a qu'il mourut , and a let there be light ...
... language , there is nothing that appears to them fo meritorious as perpetual exaggeration of thought . There muft be nothing moderate , natural , or eafy , about their fentiments . There must be a qu'il mourut , and a let there be light ...
Page 419
... language , which flows paft with fo much folemnity , that it is difficult to believe it conveys nothing of any value . Another device for improving the effect of a cold idea , is , to embody it in a verfe of unufual harfhnefs and ...
... language , which flows paft with fo much folemnity , that it is difficult to believe it conveys nothing of any value . Another device for improving the effect of a cold idea , is , to embody it in a verfe of unufual harfhnefs and ...
Page 427
... language is almoft infignificant . In the following paf- fage , in which four fervants are reprefented drinking , all the elo- quence is in the cup , which has thus as fair a claim as any of thofe who hold it , to be confidered as a ...
... language is almoft infignificant . In the following paf- fage , in which four fervants are reprefented drinking , all the elo- quence is in the cup , which has thus as fair a claim as any of thofe who hold it , to be confidered as a ...
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