 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 266 Seiten
..."advertisement" is worth quoting: "This poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words.and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines, which...writ in our language; just as in French, the style of Marot, who lived under Francis the First, has been used in tales, and familiar epistles, by the politest... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 268 Seiten
...extreme majesty." 1748. James Thomson in the "Advertisement" of "The Castle of Indolence": "And the stile of that Admirable Poet as well as the Measure in which...custom to all Allegorical Poems writ in our Language." 1751. Robert Lloyd in the preface to The Progress of Envy still condemns the stanza, "which is universally... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 Seiten
...Lines, which borders on the Ludicrous, were necessary to make the Imitation more perfect. And the stile of that admirable Poet, as well as the Measure in...Poems writ in our Language ; just as in French the stile of Marot who lived under Francis I. has been used in Tales, and familiar Epistles, by the politest... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 Seiten
...CASTLE OF INDOLENCE ADVERTISEMENT This poem being writ in the Manner of Spenser, the obsolete Words, and a Simplicity of Diction in some of the Lines,...necessary to make the Imitation more perfect. And the stile of that admirable Poet, as well as the Measure in which he wrote, are as it were appropriated... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 Seiten
...Thomson, London, 1766 edition, p. XXI. 4 ib., p. XXI. writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...necessary to make the imitation more perfect. And the stile of that admirable poet, as well as the measure in which he wrote, are, as it were, appropriated... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 Seiten
...Thomson, London, 1766 edition, p. XXI. « ib., p. XXI. writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...necessary to make the imitation more perfect. And the stile of that admirable poet, as well as the measure in which he wrote, are, as it were, appropriated... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 Seiten
...poem (says the advertisement prefixed to it) being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...necessary to make the imitation more perfect. And the stile of that admirable poet, as well as the measure in which he wrote, are, as it were, appropriated... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...prefixed to the poem he wrote: "This poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines which...were necessary to make the imitation more perfect." Nevertheless, in spite of some deliberately humorous flickers in the handling of language and in portraits... | |
 | Philip W. Martin - 1982 - 268 Seiten
...Thomson with his tongue in his cheek: This poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines which...were necessary to make the imitation more perfect. (Advertisement to The Castle of Indolence)17 It would be a mistake to suggest that Byron was unaware... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 Seiten
...of Indolence (1748) says that as the poem is written in the manner of Spenser, ' the obsolete words and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines, which borders on the ludicrous,' are necessary in order to make the imitation more perfect. And William Mickle, another imitator, writes,... | |
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This Poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines which borders on the ludicrous, were necessary to make the imitation more perfect. 
