 The last of the symptoms of rusticity which we think it necessary to notice in the works of this extraordinary man, is that frequent mistake of mere exaggeration and violence, for force and sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition,...  Select Reviews - Seite 141809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1809 - 530 Seiten
...sublimity, which has defaced so much of his, prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is,...had evidently a very false and crude notion of what constituted strength of writing ; and instead of that simple and brief directness which stamps the... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 Seiten
...sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is,...strength of writing; and instead of that simple and brief directness which stamps the character of vigour upon every syllable, has generally had recourse... | |
 | 1809 - 878 Seiten
...sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose compositio; i , and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is,...had evidently a very false and crude notion of what constituted strength of writing ; and instead of that simple and brief directness which stamps the... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 Seiten
...composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The ti'uth is, that his forte was in humour and in pathos, or...rather in tenderness of feeling ; and that he has very sel dom succeeded, either where mere wit and sprightliness, or where great energy and weight of sentiment... | |
 | 1809 - 530 Seiten
...sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of, his serious poetry. The truth is, that his forte was in humour and in pathos—or rather in tenderness of feeling; and that he has very seldom succeeded, either where mere... | |
 | 1835 - 932 Seiten
...composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour lo a good deal of his serious poelry. The trulh is, that his forte was in humour and in pathos —...energy and weight of sentiment were requisite. He had cvii ¡mil ya very false and crude notion of what constituted strength of writing; and instead of that... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 Seiten
...sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is, that Ins forte was in humour and in pathos — or rather in tenderness of feeling ; and that he has very... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 Seiten
...sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is,...had' evidently a very false and crude notion of what constituted strength of writing ; and inKtead of that simple and brief directness which stamps the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 Seiten
...sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is,...were requisite. He had evidently a very false and i crude notion of what constituted strength of writing ; I and instead of that simple and brief directness... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 Seiten
...sublimity, which has defaced so much of his prose composition, and given an air of heaviness and labour to a good deal of his serious poetry. The truth is, that his/orfe was in humour and in pathos — or rather in tenderness of feeling ; and that he has very... | |
| |
