| Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - 1753 - 366 pages
...but if the attempt can be excufed, I don't de-. *•' fire to have it pafs for a decifive fentence. " Perhaps few men that- dealt in poetry had. '-' 'more learning, or real wlfdom than this noble*' man, and yet his ftile is fometimes fp dark " and myftcrions, that one would... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 410 pages
...excellent, is the following from The Muses' Library, 1737, quoted by Dr. Grosart (Greville, II, vi): "Perhaps few men that dealt in poetry had more learning...yet his style is sometimes so dark and mysterious, I mean it appears so to me, that one would imagine that he chose rather to conceal than illustrate... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 pages
...excellent, is the following from The Muses' Library, 1737, quoted by Dr. Grosart (Greville, II, vi): "Perhaps few men that dealt in poetry had more learning...yet his style is sometimes so dark and mysterious, I mean it appears so to me, that one would imagine that he chose rather to conceal than illustrate... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 412 pages
...excellent, is the following from The Muses' Library, 1737, quoted by Dr. Grosart (Greville, II, vi): "Perhaps few men that dealt in poetry had more learning...yet his style is sometimes so dark and mysterious, I mean it appears so to me, that one would imagine that he chose rather to conceal than illustrate... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1868 - 868 pages
...(the best of female critics) says of him, with that good sense which distinguishes her collection : Perhaps few men that dealt in poetry had more learning...yet his style is sometimes so dark and mysterious that one would imagine he chose rather to conceal than illustrate his meaning. At other times his heart... | |
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