 Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be .inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 4041837Full view - About this book
 | 428 pages
...wished much to possess it, ever since we read the surprise expressed by the great master of living song, that " excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...not contain a single new image of external nature." * In vain, however, did we inquire in the bookshops for the volume of this charming and most original... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 534 pages
...humous Works4. — A great number of her poems are said to be extant in manuscript s. [Lady Winchelsea was the daughter of sir William Kingsmill, of Sidmonton, in the county of Southampton. She was maid of honour to the duchess of York, and married Heneage, second son of Heneage, earl of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 pages
...the author of it. " FINCH (ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA), a lady of considerable poetical talents, was the daughter of sir William Kingsmill, of Sidmonton, in the county of Southampton, but the time of her hirth is not mentioned. She was maid of honour to the duchess of York, second wife... | |
 | 1814 - 538 pages
...not the author of it.' FINCH (ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA), a lady of considerable poetical talents, was the daughter of sir William Kingsmill, of Sidmonton, in the county of Southampton, but the time of her birth is not mentioned. She was maid of honour to the duchess of York, second wife... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 542 pages
...the author of it. ' FINCH (ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA), a lady of considerable poetical talents, was the daughter of sir William Kingsmill, of Sidmonton, in the county of Southampton, but the time of her birth is not mentioned. She was maid of honour to the duchess of York, second wife... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...by undertaking to write in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...by undertaking to write in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two hj the Windsor Forest of Pope, and some delightful pictures...not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
 | John Clare - 1820 - 254 pages
...under new and interesting appearances. There is some merit in all this, .for Wordsworth asserts, " that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...publication of the Paradise Lost, and the Seasons [60 years], does not contain a single new image of external nature." But CLARE has no idea of excelling... | |
 | 1822 - 880 pages
...prosaic man, — - " a primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more," the Seasons, does not contain a single new image of external nature, and scarcely presents a familiar one, from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been... | |
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