 | 1826 - 602 pages
...such works as Dryden's, Pope's, and a few others, that from their unity, their completeness, their polish, have the stamp of immortality upon them, and seem indestructible like an element of nature. There are few of these : I fear your friend Wordsworth is not one." I said, I thought one circumstance... | |
 | James Northcote, William Hazlitt - 1830 - 344 pages
...from their ignorance to banish truth and justice from the world. I see you place Sir Walter above Lord Byron. The question is not which keeps longest on...soars highest : and I cannot help thinking there are essences in Lord Byron that are not to be surpassed. He is on a par with Dryden. All the other modern... | |
 | 1868 - 284 pages
...most perfect works of human ingenuity; such works that, from their unity, their completeness, their polish, have the stamp of immortality upon them, and...The question is, not which keeps longest on the wing uut which soars highest ; and I cannot help thinking there are passages in Lord Byron which are not... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 592 pages
...such works as Dryden's, Pope's, and a few others, that from their unity, their completeness, their polish, have the stamp of immortality upon them, and seem indestructible, like an element of nature. There are few of these ; I fear your friend Wordsworth is not one." I said I thought one circumstance... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 582 pages
...such works as Dryden's, Pope's, and a few others, that from their unity, their completeness, their polish, have the stamp of immortality upon them, and seem indestructible, like an element of nature. There are few of these ; I fear your friend Wordsworth is not one." I said I thought one circumstance... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 538 pages
...such works as Dryden's, Pope's, and a few others, that from their unity, their completeness, their polish have the stamp of immortality upon them, and seem indestructible like an element of nature. There are few of these : I fear your friend W is not one.' I said, I thought one circumstance against... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 536 pages
...as Dryden's, Pope's, and a few others, that from their unity, their completeness, their polish hare the stamp of immortality upon them, and seem indestructible like an element of nature. There are few of these : I fear your friend W is not one." I said, I thought one circumstance against... | |
 | Robert J. Griffin - 1995 - 208 pages
...such works as Dryden's and Pope's, and a few others, that from their unity, their completeness, their polish have the stamp of immortality upon them, and seem indestructible like an element of nature. There are few of these: I fear your friend W — is not one.25 Hazlitt observes in reply that Wordsworth,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 604 pages
...such works as Dryden's, Pope's, and a few others, that from their unity, their completeness, their polish, have the stamp of immortality upon them, and seem indestructible like an element of nature. There arc few of these : I fear your friend Wordsworth is not one." I said, I thought one circumstance... | |
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... they may be done) will not be swept away in the tide of time, like straws and weeds by the torrent ? No, the world can only keep in view the principal and most perfect productions of human ingenuity ; such works as Dryden's, Pope's, and a few others,... 