 As an individual, he was retired and weaned from the vanities of the world ; and, as an original writer, he left the ambitious and luxuriant subjects of fiction and passion, for those of real life and simple nature, and for the development of his own...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4911819Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1819 - 614 pages
...simple nature, and for the developement of his own earnest feelings, in behalf of moral and reHjious truth. His language has such a masculine idiomatic...strength, and his manner, whether he rises into grace, or falls into negligence, has so much plain and familiar freedom, that we read no poetry with a deeper... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...peculiarly identify the poet and the man in perusing them. As an individual, he was retired and weaned from the vanities of the world ; and, as an original writer, he left the ambitious nd luxuriant subjects of fiction and passion, for those of real life and simple nature, and for the... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1820 - 514 pages
...peculiarly identify the poet and the man in perusing them. As an individual, he was retired and weaned from the vanities of the world ; and, as an original...strength, and his manner, whether he rises into grace or falls into negligence, has so much plain and familiar freedom, that we read no poetry with a deeper... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...remarks arising out of the character ascribed to Seattle's Minstrel. Campbell observes of Cowper, that « as an original writer, he left the ambitious and luxuriant...those of real life and simple nature , and for the developement of his own earnest feelings , in behalf of moral and religious truth » — « He forms... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...peculiarly identify the poet and the man in perusing thcfn. As an individual, he was retired and weanod from the vanities of the world ; and, as an original...those of real life and simple nature, and for the developement of his own earnest feelings, in behalf of moral and religious truth. His language has... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...peculiarly identify the poet and the man, in perusing them. As an individual, he was retired and weaned from the vanities of the world; and, as an original...strength, and his manner, whether he rises into grace or falls into negligence, has so much plain and familiar freedom, that we read no poetry with a deeper... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 744 pages
...children, must ever be regarded as a striking proof of his zeal for the interest of his order, as well as of his own earnest feelings in behalf of moral and religious truth. Whoever has examined the subject in question without bias or prejudice, must concede that though, from... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 368 pages
...children, must ever be regarded as a striking proof of his zeal for the interest of his order, as well as of his own earnest feelings in behalf of moral and religious truth. Whoever has examined the subject in question without bias or prejudice, must coiicede that though,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 338 pages
...devotional didactic cast. He seems to have taken Cowper as his model, and deals in the description 'of real life and simple nature, and for the development...feelings, in behalf of moral and religious truth." Had opportunity been allowed him to complete his designs, he would have ranked below few poets in the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...devotional didactic cast. He seems to have taken Cowper as his model, and deals in the description 'of real life and simple nature, and for the development...feelings, in behalf of moral and religious truth.' Had opportunity been allowed him to complete his designs, he would have ranked below few poets in the... | |
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