 ... that no additional cantos could have rendered it less perplexed. But still there is a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose, and their disposition confused. The clouds of his allegory may seem to spread into shapeless forms,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4741819Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 360 pages
...cantos could have rendered it less perplexed. But still there is a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose, and their disposition...sweetness and grace of his manner still abide by him. He is like a speaker whose tones continue to be pleasing, though he may speak too long ; or like a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 344 pages
...long ; or like a painter who makes us forget the defect of his design, by the magic of his colouring. We always rise from perusing him with melody in the...pictures of romantic beauty impressed on the imagination. For these attractions the "Fairy Queen" will ever continue to be resorted to by the poetical student.... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1820 - 514 pages
...cantos could have rendered it less perplexed. But still there is a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose, and their disposition...sweetness and grace of his manner still abide by him. He is like a speaker who continues to be pleasing, though he may speak too long ; or like a painter... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 pages
...cantos could have rendered it less perplexed. But still there is a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose, and their disposition...sweetness and grace of his manner still abide by him. He is like a speaker whose tones continue to be pleasing, though he may speak too long ; or like a... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...Campbell remarks, with as much of beauty as truth, " There is still a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose and their disposition...desultory, the sweetness and grace of his manner still abiJe by him." — ESSAY ON ENG. POETRY, p. 107. THE SECOND BOOK THE FAERIE QUEENE COKTATKISO THE LEGEND... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...Campbell remarks, with as much of beauty as truth, " There is still a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose and their disposition...spread into shapeless forms, but they are still the ckmds of a glowing atmosphere. Though his story grows desultory, the sweetness and grace of his manner... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...cantos could have rendered it less perplexed. But still there is a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose, and their disposition...romantic beauty impressed on the imagination."— p. 124— 127. In his account of the great dramatic writers of that and the succeeding reign, Mr. C.'s... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...cantos could have rendered it less perplexed. But still there is a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose, and their disposition...sweetness and grace of his manner still abide by him. He is like a speaker whose tones continue to be pleasing, though he may speak too long ; or like a... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...cantos could have rendered it less perplexed. But still there is a richness in his materials, even where their coherence is loose, and their disposition...melody in the mind's ear, and with pictures of romantic beanty impressed on the imagination.'' — p. 1'24 — 127. In his account of the great dramatic writers... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...The clouds <n his allegory may seem lo spread into shapeless forms, but they are strll the clouds <jf a glowing atmosphere. Though his story grows desultory,...and with pictures of romantic beauty impressed on ihe imagination." — pp. 124 — 127. In his account of the great dramatic writers of that and the... | |
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