 THE design was to trace the progress of a Poetical Genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a Minstrel...  Public Characters - Page 4701804Full view - About this book
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 982 pages
..."the progress of a poetical genius born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel." B. intended to have added a third part, but circumstances hindered him. In 1776, he published a scries... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 pages
...the progress of a poetical genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel." • I find yon are willing to suppose, that, in Edwin, I have given only a picture of myself as I was... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 pages
...the progress of a poetical genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel." In a certain sense the poem may be considered as an idealized autobiography ; for Beattie thus writes... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...the progress of a poetical genius, bor n in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel I have endeavored to imitate Spenser in the measure of his verse, and in the harmony, simplicity, and... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...trace the progress of a poetical genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel I have endeavored to imitate Spenser in the measure of his verse, and in the harmony, simplicity, and... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1909 - 452 pages
...Spenserian stanzas. Its design is "to trace the progress of a poetical genius .... till that period when he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel,"' and its theme is really the effect of mountain scenery on a poetically sensitive mind. The child, Edwin,... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 pages
...Spenserian stanzas. Its design is " to trace the progress of a poetical genius .... till that period when he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel,"1 and its theme is really the effect of mountain scenery on a poetically sensitive mind.... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...the progress of a Poetical Genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, bert Burns, p. 231. love-inspiring qualities, she...ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin ; but in the measure of his verse, and in the harmony, simplicity, and variety of his composition. Antique... | |
 | 1920 - 660 pages
...the progress of a Poetical Genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable...forefathers, was not only respectable, but sacred ". And the reason why he adopted the Spenserian measure he tells us was, "that it pleases my ear, and... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 pages
...trace the progress of a Poetical Genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a Minstrel." The paragraphs of Isaac Watts in the first half and those of Rousseau after the middle of the century... | |
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