| Thomas Warton - Criticism, Textual - 1762 - 264 pages
...diffufed, and we require the fame order and defign which every modern performance is expected to have, in poems where they never were regarded or intended....warm imagination and a ftrong fenfibility. It was his bufmefs to engage the fancy, and to intereft the attention by bold and ftriking images f, in the formation,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...diff'ufed, and we require the fame order and defign which every modern performance is expefted to have, in poems where they never were regarded or intended....the carelefs exuberance of a warm imagination and a firong feniibility. It was his bufinefs to engage the fancy, and to intereft the attention by bold... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...diffufed, and we require the fame order and defign which every modern performance is expefted to have, in poems where they never were regarded or intended. Spenfer, (and the fame may be laid of Ariofto,) did not live in an age of planning. His poetry is the carelefs exuberance of a warm... | |
| Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 384 pages
...in poems where they never were regarded or intended. Spenser, and the same may be said of Ariosto, did not live in an age of planning. His poetry is the care* Or). Fur. c. \. s. 1. less exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility^ It was... | |
| Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 262 pages
...within its own bounds, so that the appearance of Arthur in all is gratuitous. " Spenser," says Warton, " did not live in an age of planning. His poetry is the careless exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility. It was his business to engage the... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...within its own bounds, so that the appearance of Arthur in all is gratuitous. " Spenser," says Warton, " did not live in an age of planning. His poetry is the careless exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility. It was his business to engage the... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...in poems where they never were regarded or intended. Spenser, and the same may be said of Ariosto, did not live in an age of planning. His poetry is the careless exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility. It was his business to engage the... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...in poems where they never were regarded or intended. Spenser, and the same may be said of Ariosto, did not live in an age of planning. His poetry is the careless exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility. It was his business to engage the... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...in poems where they never were regarded or intended. Spenser, and the same may be said of Ariosto, did not live in an age of planning. His poetry is the careless exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility. It was his business to engage the... | |
| Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...in poems where they never were regarded or intended. Spenser, and the same may be said of Ariosto, did not live in an age of planning. His poetry is the careless exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility. Absurd to judge Ariosto or Spenser... | |
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