 | 1818 - 764 Seiten
...the loftiest and wildest odes, hod a logic of its own as severe as that of science. • • • * * Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations...can almost hear him now exclaiming, • Harp .* Harp 9 Lyrct Pen and Ink ! Boy you mean ! Mute ! bay ! Mute ! your Nurte't daughter you mean t B Pierian... | |
 | 1818 - 782 Seiten
...that of the loftiest and wildest odes, had a logic of its own as severe as that of science. * * * * * Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations...* Harp ? Lyre ? Pen and Ink ! Boy you mean ! Muse ! lx)yf Muse ! your Nurse's daughter you mean ! B Pierian Spring ! O Aye ! the cloister Pump /'••••... | |
 | 1834 - 614 Seiten
...sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses. and inspirations....nurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring ! Oh, ay ! the cloister pump, I suppose." " There was one custom of our master's, which I cannot pass over... | |
 | 1821 - 526 Seiten
...We never observe these errors without remembering the remarks of the instructor of Mr. Coleridge, " Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations,...mean ! Muse, boy, muse ? — Your nurse's daughter, jou mean ! Pierian spring ? — O, aye ; the cloister pump, I presume !" It is, however, but just to... | |
 | 1821 - 522 Seiten
...We never observe these errors without remembering the remarks of the instructor of Mr. Coleridge, " Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations,...Lyre ?—Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy, muse ? —Yonr nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring ?—O, aye; the cloister pump, I presume !" It... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 348 Seiten
...sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations,...almost hear him now exclaiming, — Harp ? Harp ? Lyre 9 Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse! yournurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring 9 Oh... | |
 | 1822 - 666 Seiten
...might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him." — " There was one custom of our master's, which I cannot pass over in silence, because I think it... | |
 | 1820 - 474 Seiten
...might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer 172 THF, EARLY LIFK OK A POUT. words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations,...Parnassus, and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him. Infancy I can almost hear him now exclaiming, " Harp ? harp ? lyre ? Pen and ink, hoy, you mean! Muse,boy,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 Seiten
...— Pegasus, I'uruassus and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him. In fancy, 1 can almost bear k& ?lـ p/ ! jour nurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring ! О ay! the cloister pump, I suppose.» In his... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 Seiten
...and ' Pierian spring,' in his verses." " What was that?" " Why the pedagogue used to stop him thus, ' Harp, harp, lyre ? pen and ink, boy, you mean! — Muse, boy, muse? Your Muse's daughter, you mean ! — Pierian spring ? oh, ay ! the cloister pump, I suppose !" " An excellent... | |
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English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer... 
