 | Matthew Arnold - 1862 - 88 pages
...controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. I think this definition will be found to cover all instances of the grand style in poetry which present... | |
 | 1862 - 610 pages
...can be expressed in words, Mr Arnold ' thinks it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject' Nor is this, as one of Mr Arnold's critics has maintained it to be, a confusion of grandeur of thought... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 334 pages
...controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. I think this definition will be found to cover all instances of the grand style in poetry which present... | |
 | Arthur Galton - 1884 - 84 pages
...classical. Nor must we forget these harder words, the definition of the grand style, which is only found " when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject." This test is harder, but those great works that have lived, the ('lassies,—of Greece, of Borne, of... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1885 - 256 pages
...classical. Nor must we forget these harder words, the definition of the grand style, which is only found "when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject." This test is harder, but those great works that have lived, the classics — of Greece, of Rome, of... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1886 - 352 pages
...other, " there his poems lie. We knew the poet." "And that was well. He would have wish'd no more. The soldier and the statesman are the state's, And...that can augment The dignity of office and of power Befits them, as the king his robe and crown. Not so the poet. He is all mankind's, Akin to both the... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1892 - 248 pages
...his essay ' On translating Homer ' : ' I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.' A very comprehensive definition. If he had said, 'When one poetically gifted,' etc., omitting 'a noble... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pages
...controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. I think this definition will be found to cover all instances of the grand style in poetry which present... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 pages
...controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. I think this definition will be found to cover all instances of the grand style in poetry which present... | |
 | 1914 - 552 pages
...controlling what we say by examples. I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity o, serious subject The best model of the grand style simple is Homer; perhaps the best model of the... | |
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I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. 
