The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 82
... Milton , so allied in the better part of his genius to those favoured men , not excepting even Collins , who saw farther into the sacred places of poetry than any man of the last age . Mr. Wordsworth speaks less of the vulgar tongue of ...
... Milton , so allied in the better part of his genius to those favoured men , not excepting even Collins , who saw farther into the sacred places of poetry than any man of the last age . Mr. Wordsworth speaks less of the vulgar tongue of ...
Page 83
... Milton or Spenser never abused it , and so as to destroy those great ends of poetry , by which it should assist the uses and refresh the spirits of life . From him to whom much is given much shall be required . Mr. Wordsworth is ca ...
... Milton or Spenser never abused it , and so as to destroy those great ends of poetry , by which it should assist the uses and refresh the spirits of life . From him to whom much is given much shall be required . Mr. Wordsworth is ca ...
Page 94
... Milton . * Mil- ton could write with a natural greatness , though not so well as Shakspeare ; but he chose also at times to be more artificial , and if he has been so too often , it only shows that his genius had less natural greatness ...
... Milton . * Mil- ton could write with a natural greatness , though not so well as Shakspeare ; but he chose also at times to be more artificial , and if he has been so too often , it only shows that his genius had less natural greatness ...
Page 96
... to allow that he has merits of his own superior to his felicitous imitations of Milton , ( for the latter , after all , though admired by some as his real ex- cellence , are only the occasional and perhaps unconscious tributes 96.
... to allow that he has merits of his own superior to his felicitous imitations of Milton , ( for the latter , after all , though admired by some as his real ex- cellence , are only the occasional and perhaps unconscious tributes 96.
Page 103
... Milton , in his fine way , gives us a picture in a word , -the Pansy freak'd with jet . Another of its names is Love - in - idleness , under which it has been again celebrated by Shakspeare , to whom we must always return for any thing ...
... Milton , in his fine way , gives us a picture in a word , -the Pansy freak'd with jet . Another of its names is Love - in - idleness , under which it has been again celebrated by Shakspeare , to whom we must always return for any thing ...
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