 | 1898 - 664 σελίδες
...preface to Matthew Arnold's 'Wordsworth' I find the following : — " Wordsworth owed much to Burns, and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely...force of that which with entire fidelity it utters, Burns could show him. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt... | |
 | 1879 - 592 σελίδες
...it is expression of the highest and most truly expressive kind. Wordsworth owed much to Burns, and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely...force of that which with entire fidelity it utters, Burns could show him : " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1879 - 834 σελίδες
...yet it is expression of the highest and most truly expressive kind. Wordsworth owed much to Bums, and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely...force of that which with entire fidelity it utters, Burns could show him. " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 σελίδες
...it is expression of the highest and most truly expressive kind. Wordsworth owed much to Burns, and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely...force of that which with entire fidelity it utters, Burns could show him. " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt... | |
 | 1879 - 556 σελίδες
...it is expression of the highest and most truly expressive kind. Wordsworth owed much to Burns. and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely...force of that which with entire fidelity it utters, Burns could show him. " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt... | |
 | 1922 - 694 σελίδες
...5. In mere style Burns is, when writing in Scotch, to be ranked with the great masters. 6. Burns has a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely on the weight of that which with entire fidelity it utters. — Matthew Arnold. 1. The prevailing characteristic... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 382 σελίδες
...it is expression of the highest and most truly expressive kind. r^Wordsworth owed much to Burns, and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely on the weight and force of that which witli entire fidelity it utters,jBurns could show him. " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1882 - 546 σελίδες
...conceptions depending for their attraction, not on their halo, but on themselves ; it relies for its value "solely on the weight and force of that which with entire fidelity it utters," or if not on these qualities solely, at least on them together with our sense of mastery and of fitness... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1882 - 434 σελίδες
...as the bare mountaintops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur," or again as a style " relying solely on the weight and force of that which with entire fidelity it utters," those are qualities distinctively characteristic of the classical manner in literature. It is, of course,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 284 σελίδες
...but he has no assured poetic style of his own, like Milton. . . . Wordsworth owed much to Burns, and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely...force of that which with entire fidelity it utters, Burns could show m' " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt... | |
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Burns, and a style of perfect plainness, relying for effect solely on the weight and force of that which with entire fidelity it utters, Burns could show him. 
