 These poems differ from others, as attar of roses differs from ordinary rose water. the close packed essence from the thin diluted mixture. They are indeed not so much poems, as collections of hints, from each of which the reader is to make out a poem...  Dictiony of English literature - Page 396by William Davenport Adams - 1880Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1826 - 126 pages
...works of Milton is his peculiar manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso. It is impossible to conceive that the mechanism of...degree of perfection. These poems differ from others as otto of roses does from ordinary rose , water, the close-packed essence from the thin diluted mixture.... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...works of Milton is his peculiar manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso. It is impossible to conceive that the mechanism of...degree of perfection. These poems differ from others as ollar of roses differs from ordinary rose-water, the close packed essence from the thin diluted mixture.... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...them in his memory. " It is impossible," — says an author who well appreciated his subject,* — " to conceive that the mechanism of language can be...degree of perfection. These poems differ from others as ottar of roses differs from rose water, the close packed essence from the thin diluted mixture. They... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...them in his memory. " It is impossible," — says an author who well appreciated his subject,* — " to conceive that the mechanism of language can be...a more exquisite degree of perfection. These poems diner from others as ottar of roses differs from rose water, the close packed essence from the thin... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...works of Milton is his peculiar manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso. It is impossible to conceive that the mechanism of...of perfection. These poems differ from others, as ottar of roses differs from ordinary rose water, the close packed essence from the thin diluted mixture.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...AlleTO arid the Penseroso. It is impossible to connive that the mechanism of language can be »rought to a more exquisite degree of perfection. These poems differ from others as ottar of oses différa from ordinary rose-water, the lose packed essence from the thin diluted mixure.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...works of Milton is his peculiar manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso. o look only on the surface of affairs, and never think oif ottar of roses differs from ordinary rosewater, the close packed essence from the ihin diluted mixture.... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...works of Milton is his peculiar manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penserom. It is impossible to conceive that the mechanism of...of perfection. These poems differ from others, as atar of roses differs from ordinary rose water, the close packed essence from the thin diluted mixture.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...These poems differ from others as ottar of roses differs from ordinary rosewater, the close packed irst sight seem contradictory, scarcely know him again...a few hours later, they hear him speaking on the o •rhich the reader is to make out a poem for , himself. Every epithet is a text for a canto. The Comus... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...works of Milton is his peculiar manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso. It is impossible to conceive that the mechanism of...exquisite degree of perfection. These poems differ from oihcri as ottar of roses differs from ordinary ros«. water, the close packed essence from the thin... | |
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