 | 1865 - 808 էջ
...great patriot poet in the three cardinal divisions of life — youth, manhood, and age. The first part is founded upon the well-known though ill-authenticated tradition of the Italian lady or ladies seeing Milton asleep under a tree in the gardens of his college, and leaving some tributary... | |
 | 1832 - 492 էջ
...tide ! We are sorry we cannot speak so highly of the next engraving-. The subject is the wellknown tradition of the Italian lady seeing Milton asleep...and leaving some verses beside him descriptive of his beauty. The design is by Westall, but it is altogether unworthy of so romantic and pleasing a subject.... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1831 - 346 էջ
...now altered, and the additions I have inserted may, perhaps, procure some indulgence for the lameness or the faults of the earlier portion. The first part...altogether to have escaped, in his tour through Italy, the master-passion,* I have suffered it to impart somewhat of romance and somewhat of a tale to a . poem... | |
 | 1831 - 352 էջ
...attributes of Richter's Fairy of the Lake, engraved by E. Finden. The Poet's Dream, by Westall, is from " the well-known, though ill-authenticated tradition...and leaving some verses beside him, descriptive of his beauty." Westall has not soul enough for such a subject. The Embarkation, engraved by Brandard,... | |
 | 1852 - 440 էջ
...appears, at the same time, with the same subject — namely, "the well-known, though ill-anthenticated tradition of the Italian lady seeing Milton asleep...and leaving some verses beside him, descriptive of In- beauty." Mr. Bulwer's beantiful lines form so appropriate an accompaniment to the picture, that... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1852 - 376 էջ
...great Patriot Poet in the three cardinal divisions of life — Youth, Manhood, and Age. The First Part is founded upon the well-known, though ill-authenticated, tradition of the Italian lady or ladies seeing Milton asleep under a tree in the gardens of his college, and leaving some tributary... | |
 | 1865 - 802 էջ
...great patriot poet in the three cardinal divisions of life — youth, manhood, and age. The first part is founded upon the well-known though ill-authenticated tradition of the Italian lady or ladies seeing Milton asleep under a tree in the gardens of his college, and leaving some tributary... | |
 | 1865 - 814 էջ
...great patriot poet in the three cardinal divisions of life — youth, manhood, and age. The first part is founded upon the well-known though ill-authenticated tradition of the Italian lady or ladies seeing Milton asleep under a tree in the gardens of his college, and leaving some tributary... | |
 | George Boyle - 1886 - 318 էջ
...the best is Milton, which, as he informs us, "is founded upon the well-known, though unauthenticated tradition of the Italian lady seeing Milton asleep...him, descriptive of her admiration of his beauty." Lord Lytton makes the young poet awake in time to distinguish the lady's features, and he is no less... | |
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The design of this poem," says Sir EB Lytton, in a prefatory note, " is that of a picture. It is intended to portray the great patriot poet in the three cardinal divisions of life — youth, manhood, and age. The first part is founded upon the well-known... 