 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance, in point of sense, learning,...all Horace then, and Claudian now, among us; and if I had to begin again, I would mould myself accordingly. Crabbe 's the man, but he has got a coarse... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...and mortified at the ineffable distance, in point of sense, learning, effect, and even imagmation, passion, and invention, between the little Queen Anne's...all Horace then, and Claudian now, among us; and if I had to begin again, I would mould myself accordingly. Crabbe's the man, but he has got a coarse and... | |
 | 1829 - 704 pages
...sense, learning, effect, and even imagmation, pasrion and invention, between the little Queen Anne man, and us of the lower empire. Depend upon it, it is all Horace then, and Claudian now, and if I had to begm again I would mould myself accordingly." Thou UNCREATE, UNSEEN, and UNDEFINED,... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...poetry should startle our poetasters. If the author of Childe Harold " was astonished and mortified at the ineffable distance, in point of sense, learning,...even imagination, passion, and invention," between Pope and all modern poets, what shall we say of those between whom and Byron there is a distance still... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance, in point of sense, learning, effect, and even imagination, passion, and invmlion, between the little Queen Anne's man, and us of the lower empire. Depend upon it, it is all... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 528 pages
...side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (1 ought not to have been so) and mortified at de Napoleon's last twelvemonth. It has completely...thought, if crushed, he would have fallen, when ' fractus СгаЬЬе'н the man, but he has got a coarse and impraticable subject, and * * * is retired upon... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 576 pages
...side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, learning,...effect, and even imagination, passion, and invention, * On this paragraph, in the MS. copy of the above letter,' I find the following note, in tho handwriting... | |
 | 1831 - 484 pages
...side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, learning,...all Horace then, and Claudian now, among us ; and if I had to begin again, I would mould myself accordingly. Crabbe's the man, but he has got a coarse and... | |
 | 1831 - 660 pages
...side by side with Pope's, and 1 was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance, in point of sense, learning,...all Horace then and Claudian now, among us ; and if I had to begin again, I would mould myself accordingly. Crabbe's the man, but he has got a coarse and... | |
 | 1831 - 740 pages
...side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance, in point of sense, learning,...Depend upon it, it is all Horace then, and Claudian uow, among us ; and if 1 had to begin again, I would mould myself accordingly. Crabbe's the man, but... | |
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I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope, whom I tried in this way: I took Moore's poems, and my own, and some others, and went over them side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I... 
