| William Hayley - 1803 - 452 ページ
...from one of his own to Mr. Hill. " I have been reading Gray's Works, and think him sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's Letters the best that could...and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." The Letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either in the... | |
| William Hayley - 1805 - 222 ページ
...Hill. " I have been reading Gray's Works, and think him sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's tatiers the best that could be written, but I like Gray's...called, is never ill-natured or offensive, and yet, IdUimk equally poignant with the Dean's." The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me... | |
| William Hayley - 1805 - 220 ページ
...think him sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's letters the best that could be written, but I hke Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever...and yet, I think equally poignant with the Dean's." '"; The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either in... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 486 ページ
...one of his own to Mr. Hill. 202 " I have been reading Gray's works, and think him sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's letters the best that could...and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either in the... | |
| William Cowper - 1809 - 472 ページ
...have been reading Gray's works and think him sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's letters the-best that could be written, but I like Gray's better. His...offensive, and yet I think equally poignant with the Bean's." • -->•->•*' '* l'*-. • -v^ .The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to... | |
| William Hayley - 1812 - 450 ページ
...extract from one of his own to Mr. Hill. " I HAVE been reading Gray's works, and think him sublime. ***** I once thought Swift's letters the best that could...and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." , 186 The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812 - 446 ページ
...extract from one of his own to Mr. Hill. " I HAVE been reading Gray's works, and think him sublime. ***** I once thought Swift's letters the best that could...and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." 186 The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either in... | |
| 1824 - 494 ページ
...thonght Swift s Letters the best that ronld be written; but I like Gray's better. His humour, or hit wit, or whatever it is to be called, is never ill-natured...and yet, I think, equally poignant with the Dean's." There is something very touching in the following reflections on Mr. Newton's quitting Olney ; and... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 436 ページ
...agreeable companion. I have been reading Gray's Works, and think him the only poet since Shakspeare entitled to the character of sublime. Perhaps you...and yet, I think, equally poignant with the Dean's. I am yours affectionately, WC TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ. *• ' • . MY DEAB, FRIEND, May 25, 1777. We differ... | |
| 1824 - 624 ページ
...to our Thursday society, and was an Eton man, which lowered him prodigiously in our esteem. I ouce thought Swift's Letters the best that could be written...and yet, I think, equally poignant with the Dean's." There is something very touching in the following reflections on Mr. Newton's quitting Olney ; and... | |
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