| Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...whatever miirht have been hi* eirpectationi*. whether moderate or unreueonidile. tbe result left thorn far behind, for among those who smiled on the adventurous Minstrel, were numbered the great потея of William Pilt and Charlea Fox. Neither was the extent of the sale inferior loathe character... | |
| Literature - 1837 - 598 pages
...Minstrel. The attempt to return to a more simple and natural style of poetry was likely to be welcomed, at a time when the public had become tired of heroic hexameters, with all the buckram and binding that belong to them in modern days. But *ner completing the model of his equestrian statue of Czar... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 354 pages
...Last Minstrel. The attempt to return to a more simple and natural poetry was likely to be welcomed, at a time when the public had become tired of heroic hexameters, with all the buckram and binding that belong to them in modern days. But whatever might have been his expectations, whether moderate... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 348 pages
...Last Minstrel. The attempt to return to a more simple and natural poetry was likely to be welcomed, at a time when the public had become tired of heroic hexameters, with all the buckram and binding that belong to them in modern days. But whatever might have been his expectations, whether moderate... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1831 - 622 pages
...The attempt to return to a more simple and natural style of poetry \vas Îikeîy to be welcomed at a time when the public had become tired of heroic...might have been his expectations, whether moderate or reasonable, the result left them far behind." His second work was " Marmion." If the legend of the... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1845 - 836 pages
...with all the buckram and binding that belong to them in modern days. But whatever might have been hie expectations, whether moderate or unreasonable, the...were numbered the great names of William Pitt and Citarles Fox. Neither was the extent of the sale inferior to the character of the judges who received... | |
| Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 pages
...Minstrel. The attempt to return tu a more simple and natural style of poetry was likely to be welcomed, ata time when the public had become tired of heroic hexameters, with all the buckram and binding that belong to them in modern days. But whatever might have been his expectation«, whether moderate... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 pages
...Last Minstrel. The attempt to return to a more simple and natural poetry was likely to be welcomed, at a time when the public had become tired of heroic hexameters, with all the buckram and binding that belong to them in modern days. But whatever might have been his expectations, whether moderate... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1850 - 868 pages
...The attempt to return to a more simple and natural poetry »as likely to be welcomed, at a time «hen the public had become tired of heroic hexameters, with all the buckram and binding that belong to them in modern days. But whatever might have been his expectations, whether moderate... | |
| Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...Minstrel" The attempt to return to a more simple and natural stvle of poetrv was likely to be welcomed, at a time when the public had become tired of heroic...to them of later days. But whatever might have been lus expectations, whether moderate or unreasonable, the result left them far behind, for among those... | |
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