 He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 641841Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated Local Poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation. Cooper's Hill, it it be maliciously inspected, will not be found without its faults ; the digressions... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some e bauds than ours to lop their wanton growth : Thus«...unsightly and unsniooth, Asi riddance, if we mean to Ben Jonson's fine poem on Penshurst may dispute the palm of originality on this point with the ' Cooper's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some ! ! Ȕ ! Ben Jonson's fine poem on Penshurst may dispute the palm of originality on this point with the ' Cooper's... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 530 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape to be poetically described, with...such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospections or incidental meditation. He is one of the writers that improved our taste and advanced... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation.' The versification of Denham is generally smooth and flowing, but he wanted both depth and delicacy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...retrospection or incidental meditation. To trace a new scheme of poetry has in itself a very high claim to praise, and its praise is yet more when it is apparently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...retrospection or incidental meditation. To trace a new scheme of poetry has in itself a very high claim to praise, and its praise is yet more when it is apparently... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation.' Ben Jonson's fine poem on Penhnrst, may dispute the palm of originality on this point with the 'Cooper's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...retrospection or incidental meditation. To trace a new scheme of poetry, has in itself a very high claim to praise, and its praise is yet more when it is... | |
 | John Wilson, John Leyden - 1859 - 132 pages
...Pope's Works. The fundamental subject of the local poem, as Dr. Johnson properly observes, is some particular landscape, to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation.^) The subject which Wilson proposed to himself, has the merit of unity; a merit in which the greater... | |
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