... Collins, both writers of odes? It is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the counterpart of the other. The first has but little invention, very poetical choice of expression, and a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled... The Quarterly Review - Seite 32herausgegeben von - 1854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Collins - 1907 - 140 Seiten
...good Ear ; the second, a fine fancy, model'd upon the Antique, a bad Ear, great Variety of Words, & Images with no Choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not.' The Odes must have been published just before Collins's twenty-fifth birthday, and they fell like lead... | |
| Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - 1907 - 588 Seiten
...the second a fine fancy modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, and no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." What Weston was to Cowper, Stoke Pogis was to Gray. A visit to the churchyard and its immediate neighbourhood... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 Seiten
...a good ear; the second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not."—Gray, in a letter to Wharton, December 27, 1746. " If a luxuriance of imagination, a wild sublimity... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 Seiten
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words, ictly poetical of all his "poems" is one which does not appear in Currie's GRAY, THOMAS, 1746, Letter to Tltomas Wharton, Dec. 27; Works, ed. Gosse, vol. n, p. 159. To every... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1914 - 634 Seiten
...a good Ear; the second a fine fancy, model'd upon the Antique, a bad Ear, great variety of Words, & Images with no Choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not.' More than a score of years ago I had the pleasure of ' asking Tennyson his opinion of Gray and Collins.... | |
| John Drinkwater - 1918 - 276 Seiten
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." But the denial of the false tradition by which he was surrounded was no less emphatic because it was... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1918 - 254 Seiten
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but mil not." This last clause is an example of the vanity of prophesying. It is difficult to understand... | |
| Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 Seiten
...good Ear. The second, a fine fancy, model'd upon the Antique, a bad Ear, great Variety of Words, & Images with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not."' Chatterton, who did not scruple to make use of Collins in his own African 1 December 27. * Letters,... | |
| Thomas Lucian Cline - 1923 - 300 Seiten
...a good ear. The second a fine fancy, modelled^ upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words, and images with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." Thomas Gray. Grayfs appearance in the Literary world came too late for the wits of the pseudo-classic... | |
| Heathcote William Garrod - 1928 - 132 Seiten
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not.' About the last sentence there is something (though, no doubt, it ill becomes me to say so) — something... | |
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