 The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Pagina 264door John Wilson - 1842Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pagina’s
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the Works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse,— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation I am almost ashamed to have spoken... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pagina’s
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges bf idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pagina’s
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pagina’s
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1814 - 216 pagina’s
...gratify, the taste of society has become so vitiated and so accustomed to gross stimulants, such as " frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse," as to require the counteraction of some simpler and more primitive food, •which should restore to... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have spoken... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have spoken... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pagina’s
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse." We allow to a considerable extent the correctness of this reasoning, but believe it insufficient. We... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1840 - 370 pagina’s
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakspeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.—When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pagina’s
...the stories, the speeches, the words, the sentences (which are indeed of a breathless length),—and yet, awful to relate, it is only the third part "...Wordsworth himself I consider less a moulding spirit of the jjge A than"a pervertedjjrodjjc.tipn of it. He began to write at the"era^" when men were wearied with... | |
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