| 1831 - 702 pages
...we have known of much larger compass, and more boastful preteusious. The features of original genins are clearly and strongly marked. 'The author imitates...resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon, Ferdusi or Calidas. We have remarked five distinctive excellencies of his own... | |
| Arthur Henry Hallam - 1834 - 412 pages
...unpopularity. The volume of " Poems, chiefly Lyrical" does not contain above 1 54 pages ; but it shews us much more of the character of its parent mind,...resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon, Ferdusi or Calidasa. We have remarked five distinctive excellencies of his own... | |
| 1851 - 610 pages
...late Mr. Keats, and is much more free from blemishes of diction and hasty capriccios of fancy. . . The author imitates nobody ; we recognise the spirit...resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon, Ferdusi or Calidasa. We have remarked five distinctive excellencies of his own... | |
| 1851 - 622 pages
...free from blemishes of diction and hasty capriccios of fancy. . . The author imitates nobody ; ice recognise the spirit of his age, but not the individual...resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon, Ferdusi or Calidasa. We have remarked five distinctive excellencies of his own... | |
| 1851 - 606 pages
...from blemishes of diction and hasty Capriccios of fancy. . . The author imitates nobody ; we recognize the spirit of his age, but not the individual form of this or that writer. His thonghts bear no more resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon,... | |
| John Brown - 1861 - 548 pages
...late Mr. Keats, and is much more free from blemishes of diction and hasty capriccios of fancy. . . . The author imitates nobody ; we recognise the spirit...resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon, Ferdusi or Calidasa. We have remarked five distinctive excellencies of his own... | |
| John Brown - 1861 - 470 pages
...blemishes of diction and hasty capriccios of fancy. . . . The author imitates nobody ; we recognize the spirit of his age, but not the individual form...resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon, Ferdusi 01 Calidasa. We have remarked five distinctive excellencies of his own... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1881 - 226 pages
...impassioned song more easily felt than described, and not to be escaped by those who have once felt it. The author imitates nobody. We recognise the spirit...but not the individual form of this or that writer.' Five distinctive excellencies of Tennyson's manner are marked. First, his luxuriance of imagination... | |
| John Brown - 1882 - 506 pages
...late Mr. Keats, and is much more free from blemishes of diction and hasty capriccios of fancy. . . . The author imitates nobody ; -we recognise the spirit...resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon, Ferdusi or Calidasa. We have remarked five distinctive excellencies of his own... | |
| John Brown - 1882 - 474 pages
...blemishes of diction and hasty capriccios of fancy. . . . The author imitates nobody ; we recognize the spirit of his age, but not the individual form...resemblance to Byron or Scott, Shelley or Coleridge, than to Homer or Calderon, Ferdusi 01 Calidasa. We have remarked five distinctive exec' lencies of his own... | |
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