 ... Collins, both writers of odes? It is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the counterpart of the other. The first has but little invention, very poetical choice of expression, and a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled...  The Quarterly Review - Էջ 32խմբագրել է - 1854Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 էջ
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not. Adieu! dear Sir, I am very sincerely yours, TG I was thirty years old yesterday. What is o'clock by... | |
 | 1821 - 724 էջ
...and a good ear. The second a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." So then one of the few copies of the odes, descriptive and allegorical, which had got abroad before... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 էջ
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." —Mitford's Gray, vol. ii. p. 169, 4to. In June 1749 our poet published An Ode occasioned by the death... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 էջ
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." — Mitford's Gray, vol. ii. p. 169, 4to. In June 1749 our poet published An Ode occasioned by the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 330 էջ
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not. Adieu ! dear Sir, I am very sincerely yours, TG I was thirty years old yesterday. What is o'clock by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 էջ
...good ear: the second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique; a bad ear; a great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." — GRAY to Wharton, Dec. 27, 1746. How little did Gray foresee that Collins's name, as a poet, would... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 էջ
...second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, and no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." arrival, his uncle died, and left his property to Collins and his sisters. The poet's legacy amounted... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 246 էջ
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." This last clause is an example of the vanity of prophesying. It is difficult to understand what Gray... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 252 էջ
...a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." This last clause is an example of the vanity of prophesying. It is difficult to understand what Gray... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 էջ
...the second a fine fancy, mocblled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, and no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." Who can be surprised if the " Odes" of Collins fell dead from the press, when even Gray could so blunder... | |
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