 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pages
...touches of the fportive wildnefs of Ariofto, and the more ferious fublime painting of Dante, with fome portion of the enchanting elegance, the refined imagination,...and the moral graces of Pope ; and to do this, if poflible, without violating thofe rules of propriety, which Mr. Cambridge has illuftrated, by example... | |
 | William Hayley - 1781 - 192 pages
...touches of the fportive wildnefs of Ariofto, and the more ferious fublime painting of Dante, with fome portion of the enchanting elegance, the refined imagination,...and the moral graces of Pope ; and to do this, if pofllble, without violating thofe rules of propriety, which Mr. Cambridge has illuftrated, by example... | |
 | William Hayley - 1785 - 358 pages
...touches of the fportive wildnefs of Ariofto, and the more feHous fublime painting of Dante, with fome portion of the enchanting elegance, the refined imagination,...and the moral graces of Pope ; and to do this, if poflible, without violating thofe rules of propriety, which Mr. Cambridge has illuftrated, by example... | |
 | William Hayley - 1785 - 276 pages
...touches of thefportive wildnefs of Ariojio, and the more ferious fublime painting of Dante, with fome portion of the enchanting elegance, the refined imagination, and the moral graces of Pope ; and to do this, ifpojftble, withtut violating thofe rules of propriety, which Mr. Cambridge has illuftrated, by example... | |
 | William Hayley - 1796 - 216 pages
...touches of the fportive wildnefs of Ariofto, and the more ferious fublime painting of Dante, with fome portion of the enchanting elegance, the refined imagination,...and the moral graces of Pope ; and to do this, if poffible, without violating thofe rules of propriety, which Mr. Cambridge has illuftrated, by example... | |
 | William Hayley - 1812 - 188 pages
...ineffectually) for powers to unite some touches of the sportive wildness of Ariosto, and the more iserious sublime painting of Dante, with some portion of the...without violating those rules of propriety, which M:'. Cambridge has illustrated, by example as well as precept, in the Scribleriad, and in his sensible... | |
 | Joseph Cooper Walker - 1815 - 430 pages
...which the ingenious author has succeeded, most happily, in his attempt, as he modestly terms it, " to unite some touches of the sportive " wildness of...refined imagination, and the moral graces of Pope." crowns. For an account of the many editions of this celebrated poem, which followed that of 1625, I... | |
 | 1862 - 492 pages
...overestimated poem, " in six cantos," in the preface to which the author says he had aimed at combining in it "some touches of the sportive wildness of Ariosto,...Pope ; and to do this, if possible, without violating the rules of propriety." We think he compared his chaff to the finest wheat. An " Essay on Epic Poetry"... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 pages
...diversified. I wished, indeed (but I fear most ineffectually) for powers to unite some touches of the sportive Ariosto, and the more serious sublime painting of...refined imagination, and the moral graces of Pope. (Preface, px) [The entrance to ' Spleen's terrific dome ' compared to the gate of Dante's Hell] ' Thro'... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1916 - 422 pages
...Hayley may be allowed to commit suicide in a prose passage of his Preface to The Triumtki of Ter.per. "I wished indeed, but I fear most ineffectually, for...enchanting elegance, the refined imagination, and the moral grace of Pope ; and to do this, if possible, without violating those rules of propriety which Mr. Cambridge... | |
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I wished, indeed, (but I fear most ineffectually) for powers to unite some touches of the sportive wildness of Ariosto, and the more serious sublime painting of Dante, with some portion of the enchanting elegance, the refined imagination, and the moral... 
