...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...

...but with the language itself.— HAZLITT, WILLIAM, 1818, Lectures on the English Poets, Lecture v. 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...

...the Task ; but they possess much of his spirit, and, at the same time, are original. Like Cowper, ' he left the ambitious and luxuriant subjects of fiction...those of real life and simple nature, and for the developement of his own earnest feelings, in behalf of moral and religious truth.' Amid the throng...