 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1908 - 280 ページ
...of thinking and of expressing his thoughts is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 ページ
...of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 590 ページ
...and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank Terse is no more the blank verse of Hilton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation3. This criticism... | |
 | 588 ページ
...of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation3. This criticism... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 ページ
...blank verse of Milton, or of any other 'Spring, 1l. 55-8: cf. ll. 446,447. 2E. g. Summer, ll. 1151 seq. poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. I This criticism... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 ページ
...superficial aspects of Milton's style: as Dr. Johnson put it, "His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley." The use of dignified periphrasis in the description of homely or rustic things has, as we have seen,... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1851 - 1060 ページ
...thinking and of expressing his highest thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley." A third cause of permanent interest in this poem may be added, the general tone of moral purity which... | |
 | 1782 - 710 ページ
...highed kind ; his mode of thinking and of exprefling his thoughts is original. Hi* numbers, his paofes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar drain, and he thinks always as a m»n of genius; he looks round nature and en lite, with Ihe eye which... | |
 | 1812 - 1092 ページ
...thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is'original. His blank verse1 is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowléy. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without... | |
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As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. 
