| James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 страници
...him, and that he 152 153 never yet felt what Thomson impresses. His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of spring, the splendour of summer, the tranquillity of autumn, and... | |
| Noble Kibby Royse - 1881 - 646 страници
...mind that once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute. " His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendor of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 страници
...one of the works in which blank verse seems properly used. . . . His description of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 страници
...one of the works in which blank verse seems properly used. . . . His description of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and... | |
| Franklyn Y. Fitch - 1883 - 318 страници
...genius and the gift of viewing everything in a poetical light. His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The fayety of spring, the splendor of summer, the tranquillity of autumn, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 страници
...intersection of the sense, which are the necessary effects of rhyme. His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 страници
...intersections of the sense which are the necessary effects of rhyme. His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful.' Of Young's Night Thoughts he says : ' This is one of the few poems in which... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...in the pejorative sense which he gives it in his own dictionary: His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and... | |
| Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 страници
...of his own distinctive style of generalization and antithesis. 'His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful'; his mind 'at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute' (Lives, vol.... | |
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