 | John Barbour - Scotland - 1790 - 252 pages
...mufe : but here are life, and fpirit, and eafe, and plain fenfe, and pictures of real manners, and perpetual incident, and entertainment. The language...more than a century after. But when we confider that our author is not only the firft poet, but the earlieft hiftoi ian of Scotland, who has entered into... | |
 | 1791 - 610 pages
...mufc : but here are life, and fpirit, and eafc, and' plain fenfe, and piftures of real manners, and perpetual incident and entertainment. The language...more than a century after. But when we confider that our author is not only the firitpoet, but the earlicft hiitonan of Scotland, who has entered into any... | |
 | 1794 - 614 pages
...the mufe : but here are life, and fpirit, and cafe, and plain fenfe, and pictures of red manners, and perpetual incident, and entertainment. The language...fuperior, in neatnefs and elegance, even to that of Ciawin Douglas, who wrote more than a century after. But when we conlider that our author is not only... | |
 | Johann Christoph Adelung, Anthony Florian Madinger Willich - English language - 1798 - 200 pages
...age and country in which they lived.' 'We attic drefs of the mufe : but here arc life, fpirit, eafe, plain fenfe, pictures of real manners, perpetual incident,...more than a century after. But when we confider that our author is not only the firft poet but the earlieft hiftorian of Scotland, who has entered into... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...tainment. The language is remarkably good for " the time ; and far superior, in neatness and ele" gance, even to that of Gawin Douglas, who " wrote more than a century after." The following extract from the Bruce is selected, not as giving the most brilliant specimen of Barber's... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 464 pages
...tainment. The language is remarkably good for " the time; and far superior, in neatness and ele" gance, even to that of Gawin Douglas, who " wrote more than a century after." The following extract from the Bruce is selected, ftot as giving the most brilliant specimen of Barbour's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...Muse ; but here are life, and spirit, and ease, and plain sense, and pictures of real manners, and perpetual incident and entertainment. The language is remarkably good for the time, and far superior in neatness and elegance even to that of Gawin Douglas, who wrote more than a century afterwards."... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1860 - 236 pages
...graces of fine poetry, the language is remarkably good for the time : and far superior in neatness and elegance even to that of Gawin Douglas, who wrote more than a century after." It has been modernized in all the printed editions, and the reader may compare the opening lines in... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1860 - 240 pages
...graces of fine poetry, the language is remarkably good for the time : and far superior in neatness and elegance even to that of Gawin Douglas, who wrote more than a century after." It has been modernized in all the printed editions, and the reader may compare the opening lines in... | |
 | David Irving - English poetry - 1861 - 664 pages
...incident, and entertainment. The language is remarkably good for the time, and far superior, in neatness and elegance, even to that of Gawin Douglas, who wrote more than a century after. But when we consider that our author is not only the first poet, but the earliest historian of Scotland, who has... | |
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Attic dress of the muse: but here are life, and spirit, and ease, and plain sense, and pictures of real manners, and perpetual incident, and entertainment. The language is remarkably good for the time, and far superior, in neatness and elegance, even... 
