 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 560 pages
...period with a degree of sentiment and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate. " He might safely have added," says Mr. Pinkerton, " not even in Chaucer or Lydgate." Concerning Dunbar, Mr. Warton says, that the natural... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 562 pages
...period with a degree of sentiment and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate. " He might safely have added," says Mr. Pinkerton, " not even in Chaucer or Lydgate," Concerning Dunbar, Mr. Warton says, that the natural... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 488 pages
...period, with a degree of sentiment and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate : more especially as they have left striking specimens of allegorical invention, a species of composition... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...displayed a degree of sentiment and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate.' Perhaps the explanation of this seeming mystery is, that the influences which operated upon Chaucer... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 576 pages
...period with a degree of sentiment and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate." We need not name others. They have all been contemptuously left in the obscurity of their antiquated... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 610 pages
...a command of phraseology, and a 1846.] ANIMAL MAGNETISM AND GHOST-SEEING. fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate." We need not name others. They have all been contemptuously left in the obscurity of their antiquated... | |
 | lord Patrick Fraser - 1848 - 260 pages
...period with a degree of sentiment and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate." We need not name others. They have all been contemptuously left in the obscurity of their antiquated... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...displayed a degree of sentiment and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, Perhaps the explanation of this seeming mystery is, that the influences which operated upon Chaucer... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 pages
...displayed a degree of sentiment and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate." — Chambers' Cyc. Eng. Lit. Popular Knowledge. 29. The greatest change of all that happened at this... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...displayed a degree of sentiment and spirit, n command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination, not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate.' Perhaps the explanation of this seeming mystery is, that the influences which operated upon Chaucer... | |
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Scotish writers have adorned the present period with a degree of sentiment, and spirit, a command of phraseology, and a fertility of imagination not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate. 
