 ... century. Yet her style in rhyme is often admirable, chaste, tender, and vigorous, and entirely free from sparkle, antithesis, and that overculture, which reminds one, by its broad glare, its stiffness, and heaviness, of the double daisies of the garden,...  Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855: 1812-1832 - Page 415by William Wordsworth - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 564 pages
...heaviness, of the double daisies of the garden, compared with their modest and sensitive kindred of the fields. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I think there...Goldsmith rightly observes, that there is a strain of ballad thinking through all his poetry, and it is very attractive. Pope, in that production of his... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 540 pages
...heaviness, of the double daisies of the garden, compared with their modest and sensitive kindred of Jhe fields. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I think there is...Goldsmith rightly observes, that there is a strain of ballad thinking through all his poetry, and it is very attractive. Pope, in that production of his... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 544 pages
...heaviness, of the double daisies of the garden, compared with their modest and sensitive kindred of the fields. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I think there...production of his boyhood, the ' Ode to Solitude,' and in bis 'Essay on Criticism,' has furnished proofs that at one period of his life he felt the charm of... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 550 pages
...heaviness, of the double daisies of the garden, compared with their modest and sensitive kindred of the fields. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I think there...place among the minor poets, and of whom Goldsmith observes, that there is a strain of ballad-thinking through all his poetry, and it is very attractive."*... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1902 - 588 pages
...heaviness, of the double daisies of the garden, compared with their modest and sensitive kindred of the fields. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I think there...through all his poetry, and it is very attractive. Mr. Dyce was much impressed by Wordsworth's minute and apt criticisms, and apparently suggested the... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1902 - 584 pages
...heaviness, of the double daisies of the garden, compared with their modest and sensitive kindred of the fields. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I think there...through all his poetry, and it is very attractive. Mr. Dyce was much impressed by Wordsworth's minute and apt criticisms, and apparently suggested the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 pages
...mind nauseates what she can't believe.' Eng. Poets, xxxix. 177. 4 Wordsworth mentions Tickell as one 'to whom Dr. Johnson justly assigns a high place among...through all his poetry, and it is very attractive.' Memoirs of Wordsworth, ii. 221. Goldsmith adds that Tickell's ballad of Colin and Lucy ' is perhaps... | |
 | Kurt Lienemann - 1908 - 276 pages
...contemporary" (1823 L II 211). W entdeckte dichterische Verwandtschaft zwischen Lady Winchelsea und ihm: "I think there is a good deal of resemblance in her style and versification to that of Tickeil, to whom Dr. Johnson justly assigns a high place among the minor poets, and of whom Goldsmith... | |
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