 | Abraham John Valpy - 1821 - 582 pages
...your publication, my Lord, AGAINST yourself. Whether the mere brawling, shipless sea, and the tullen winds, (as your Lordship, with the skill of a rhetorician,...silence, of solitude. What is Salisbury Plain without Stonehengo? Stonehenge is poetical from its traditions, and uncertain origin. (See Warton's fine sonnet.)... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...jioetical certainly ; but take away the ' pyramids,' and what is the ' desert 'f Take away Stone-hengc from Salisbury plain, and it is nothing more than Hounslow heath, or any other uninclosed down. It appears to me that St. Peter's, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Apollo, the Laococn,... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 108 pages
...have utterly forgotten, whilst you wrote it, its tendency, which is to establish the " INVARI" ABLE" principles of NATURE, confirmed by yourself, on the...more than Hounslow Heath, or any other uninclosed down."—Byron. I will tell you, my Lord, why a desert is poetical without a pyramid : because it conveys... | |
 | 1822 - 136 pages
...same dimensions" would not be sublime in " Lincoln's Inn Fields :" not so poetical certainly ; but take away the " pyramids," and what is the " desert?"...than Hounslow heath, or any other uninclosed down. It appears to me that St. Peter's, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Apollo, the Laocoon,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 600 pages
...the same dimensions" would not be sublime in "Lincoln's Inn Fields:" not so poetical certainly ; but take away the "pyramids, "and what is the "desert?"...than Hounslow heath, or any other uninclosed down. It appears to me that St. Peter's, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Apollo, the Laocoon,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...same dimensions« would not be sublime in «Iii>coln's Inn Fields:» not so poetical certainly; but take away the « pyramids, » and what is the •desert?»...is nothing more than Hounslow heath. or any other uninrlosed down. It appears to me that St Peter's, the Culisenm. the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Apollo,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 452 pages
...Fields : " not go poetical certainly ; but take away the " pyramids," and what is the " detert ? " Take away Stone-henge from Salisbury plain, and it is nothing more than Hounslow heath, or any other unenclosed down. It appears to me that St. Peter's, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Apollo,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...poetical certainly ; but take away the " pyramids," and what is the " desert?" Take away Stone-hengle from Salisbury plain, and it is nothing more than Hounslow Heath, or any other uninclosed down. It appears to me that St. Peter's, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Apollo, the Laocoon,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 440 pages
...Fields : " not go poetical certainly ; but take away the " pyramids," and what is the " detert ? " Take away Stone-henge from Salisbury plain, and it is nothing more than Hounslow heath, or any other unenclosed down. It appears to me that St. Peter's, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Apollo,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 446 pages
...same dimensions" would not be sublime in " Lincoln's Inn Fields : " not so poetical certainly ; but take away the " pyramids," and what is the "desert?"...is nothing more than Hounslow heath, or any other unenclosed down. It appears to me that St. Peter's, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Palatine, the Apollo,... | |
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Bowles contends again that the pyramids of Egypt are poetical, because of " the association with boundless deserts," and that a " pyramid of the same dimensions" would not be sublime in " Lincoln's Inn Fields :" not so poetical certainly ; but take away... 
