 ... subject: but, instead of new images of tenderness, or delicate representation of intelligible feelings, he has contrived to tell us nothing whatever of the unfortunate fair one, but that her name is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1311808Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...that her name is Martha Ray, and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries " 0 misery!" All the rest of the poem is filled with a...picturesque sketches with which so many authors of moderate lalents have presented us on this inviting subject, all that he is pleased to communicate of the rustic... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...that her name is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries " O misery ! " All the rest of the poem is filled with...untimely death of promising youth, is also a common topic for poetry. Mr. Wordsworth has made some blank verse about it ; but, instead of the delightful and... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pages
...that her name is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries " O misery ! " All the rest of the poem is filled with...untimely death of promising youth, is also a common topic for poetry. Mr. Wordsworth has made some blank verse about it ; but, instead of the delightful and... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...that her name is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries " 0 misery !" All the rest of the poem is filled with...promising youth, is also a common topic of poetry. Mr. VVordsworth has made some blank verse about it; but, instead of the delightful and picturesque sketches... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...that her name is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries " 0 misery !" All the rest of the poem is filled with a de-scription of an old thom and a pond, and of the silly stories which the neighbouring old women told about them. The sports... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Criticism - 1883 - 302 pages
...is Martha Ray ; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries, " O misery !" The rest of the poem is filled with a description...childhood and the untimely death of promising youth is (sic) also a common topic of poetry. Mr. Wordsworth has some blankverse about it, but all he is pleased... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Books - 1894 - 282 pages
...her name 20 is Martha Ray; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries " O misery! " All the rest of the poem is filled with...which the neighbouring old women told about them. 25 The sports of childhood, and the untimely death of promising youth, is also a common topic of poetry.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Books - 1894 - 280 pages
...her name 20 is Martha Ray; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries "O misery! " All the rest of the poem is filled with...which the neighbouring old women told about them. 25 The sports of childhood, and the untimely death of promising youth, is also a common topic of poetry.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Books - 1894 - 282 pages
...her name 20 is Martha Ray; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and cries "O misery! " All the rest of the poem is filled with...which the neighbouring old women told about them. -S The sports of childhood, and the untimely death of promising youth, is also a common topic of poetry.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Books - 1894 - 282 pages
...20 is Martha Ray; and that she goes up to the top of a hill, in a red cloak, and. ,,Ems " d-mi^ry1 " All the rest of the poem is filled with a description...which the neighbouring old women told about them. 25 The sports of childhood, and the untimely death of promising youth, is also a common topic of poetry.... | |
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