 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 sider
...cause of his being so much neglected by modern readers. In smoothness and harmony of versification, he yields to no poet of his own time, when these qualities...tender and natural, and a fertility of fancy, although this be not always free from the conceits of the Italian school. As a satirist, if nothing remained... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 sider
...cause of his being so much neglected by modern readers. In smoothness and harmony of versification, he yields to* no poet of his own time, when these qualities...very common; but his higher merit is that in every thino- he discovers the powers and invention of a poet, a warmth of sentiment tender and natural, and... | |
 | William Marrat - 1814 - 440 sider
...for his being neglected by modern readers — else in every thing be wrote he diicovers the powera and invention of a poet, a warmth of sentiment tender and natural, and as a satyrist, if nothing remained but his."Steele Glasse" he may be reckoned one ef the first. A few... | |
 | 1820 - 158 sider
...contemporaries. " In smoothness and harmony of versification, he yields to no poet of his own time ; but his higher merit is, that in every thing he discovers...sentiment tender and natural, and a fertility of fancy, As a satirist, if nothing remained but his " Steele Glasse," he may he reckoned one of the first."... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 612 sider
...remarks : " In smoothness and harmony of versification he yields to no poet of his own time, when those qualities were very common ; but his higher merit...always free from the conceits of the Italian school." He was a good prose writer, a judicious critic, and had great merit as a satirist, giving very curious... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 616 sider
...to no poet of his own time, when those qualities were very common ; but his higher merit is that m every thing he discovers the powers and invention...always free from the conceits of the Italian school." He was a good prose writer, a judicious critic, and had great merit as a satirist, giving very curious... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 616 sider
...remarks : " In smoothness and harmony of versification he yields to no poet of his own time, when those qualities were very common ; but his higher merit is that in every tiling he discovers the powers and invention of a poet, a warmth of sentiment tender and natural, and... | |
 | George Adlard - 1870 - 386 sider
...cause of his being so much neglected by modern readers. In smoothness and harmony of versification, he yields to no poet of his own time, when these qualities...conceits of the Italian school. As a satirist, if nothing remained but his Steele Glass, he may be reckoned one of the first. There is a vein of sly... | |
 | George Adlard - 1870 - 402 sider
...of his being so much neglected by modern readers. In smoothness and bar-, mony of versification, he yields to no poet of his own time, when these qualities...thing he discovers the powers and invention of a poet ; n warmth of sentiment, tender and natural ; and a fertility of fancy, although not always free from... | |
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... consider the general merit of the poets in the early part of the Elizabethan period, it will probably appear that the extreme rarity of Gascoigne's works has been the chief cause of his being so much neglected by modern readers. In smoothness and... 