The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.], Том 1Colburn, 1825 |
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... verse . We have as good as hinted , that his Lordship's poetry consists mostly of a tissue of superb com- mon - places ; even his paradoxes are common- place . They are familiar in the schools they are only new and striking in his ...
... verse . We have as good as hinted , that his Lordship's poetry consists mostly of a tissue of superb com- mon - places ; even his paradoxes are common- place . They are familiar in the schools they are only new and striking in his ...
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... verse , which ascends , like the aloe , to the clouds , with pure flowers at its top . Or to take an humbler comparison ( the pride of genius must sometimes stoop to the lowliness of criticism ) Mr. Campbell's poetry often re- minds us ...
... verse , which ascends , like the aloe , to the clouds , with pure flowers at its top . Or to take an humbler comparison ( the pride of genius must sometimes stoop to the lowliness of criticism ) Mr. Campbell's poetry often re- minds us ...
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... verse does not put a spirit of youth in every thing , but a spirit of fear , despondency , and decay : it is not an electric spark to kindle or expand , but acts like the torpedo's touch to deaden or contract . It lends no dazzling ...
... verse does not put a spirit of youth in every thing , but a spirit of fear , despondency , and decay : it is not an electric spark to kindle or expand , but acts like the torpedo's touch to deaden or contract . It lends no dazzling ...
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... verses read like serious burlesque , and the pa- rodies which have been made upon them are hardly so quaint as the ... verse ? The philosopher in paint- ing the dark side of human nature may have reason on his side , and a moral lesson ...
... verses read like serious burlesque , and the pa- rodies which have been made upon them are hardly so quaint as the ... verse ? The philosopher in paint- ing the dark side of human nature may have reason on his side , and a moral lesson ...
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... verse ; a namby - pamby Man- deville , a Malthus turned metrical romancer . He professes historical fidelity ; but his vein is not dramatic ; nor does he give us the pros and cons of that versatile gipsey , Nature . He does not indulge ...
... verse ; a namby - pamby Man- deville , a Malthus turned metrical romancer . He professes historical fidelity ; but his vein is not dramatic ; nor does he give us the pros and cons of that versatile gipsey , Nature . He does not indulge ...
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