He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pągina 1671828Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William Hamilton Drummond - 1822 - 112 pągines
...closely with Johnson's description of local poetry, — " The fundamental subject of which," he says, " is some particular landscape to be poetically described,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation.'' Helicon and Parnassus had been repeatedly celebrated by the muse before Cooper's hill ; — and. Denham... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pągines
...at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated Local Poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation. Cooper's Hill, if it be maliciously inspected, will not be found without its faults ; the digressions... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pągines
...at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated Local Poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation. Cooper's Hill, if it be maliciously inspected, will not be found without its faults ; the digressions... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pągines
...at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation. To trace a new scheme of poetry, has, in itself, a very high claim to praise, and its praise is yet... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pągines
...at least among us, the authour of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...historical retrospection or incidental meditation. To trace a new scheme of poetry has in itself a very high claim to praise, and its praise is yet more... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pągines
...been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated localpoetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape,...be poetically described, with the addition of such embellish. tn em s as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation. -. To trace... | |
| John Colin Dunlop - 1827 - 634 pągines
...as the origin of that species of composition which has been denominated Local poetry, of which the subject is some particular landscape to be poetically...embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection. 2 1 Lib. III. 16. 2 Denham's Coopers Hill, Dyer's Grongar Hill, and Pope's In the first elegy of this... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1829 - 554 pągines
...every grove, And every echo whisper'd heart-felt love. * Local poetry is a species of composition, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation. — Vr. Johnson, First-born of bards! when fancy paints thy n.ime, I catch contagion from thy hallovv'd... | |
| Brian Broughton - 1829 - 48 pągines
...RECTOR OF LONG DITTON, AND FORMERLY FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. " The characteristic of local poetry is some particular landscape to be poetically " described,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation." Johnson! 't Life o/Denham. LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICOL, CLEVELAND-ROW. MDCCCXXIX. Sfo /. /J>... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1829 - 540 pągines
...heart-felt love. • Local poetry is a species of composition, of which the fundamental subject i* some particular landscape to be poetically described,...historical retrospection, or incidental meditation. — Dr. Johnim. First-born of bards! when fancy paints thy name, 1 catch contagion from thy hallow'd... | |
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