 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 էջ
...name. There is scarcely any man, distinguished for intellect, who ranks higher than Voltaire. . " He ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all !" — poet in all styles, — dramatist — historian — and, as a wit, superior even to him of whom... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 510 էջ
...blanket to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by Nobles to-morrow!" The anonymous writer thus characterises the talents of Sheridan : — " Was this then the...mind was an essence, compounded, with art,. From the f1nest and best of all other men's powers; — Who rul'd, like a wizard, the world of the heart, And... | |
 | 1826 - 568 էջ
...that the strictures which we have ventured to pass upon one of the most admired productions of " the minstrel .who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all," — have no relation to the poetry, as such, of the lines whose structure we have examined. Indeed,... | |
 | 1826 - 570 էջ
...words, and then with Moore's, how dangerous it is to wanton with a thing so delicate as music. " the minstrel who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all,"— We must not forget, in all our hostility to unmusical versification, that there is an opposite extreme... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 էջ
...Vhen Trulh will be heard, and these lords of a day lie forgotten as fools, or remeinber'd as worse — Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, he orator— dramatist — minstrel, — who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all'... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 470 էջ
...curse; When Truth will he heard, and these lords of л day Be forgotten as fools, or remember' d as won «Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man....— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was macler of all! « Whose mind was an essence, compounded with art From the finest and best of all other... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 520 էջ
...to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by Nobles tomorrow!" • The anonymous writer thus characterises the talents of Sheridan: — " Was this, then, the...master of all? " Whose mind was an essence, compounded will) art, From the finest and best of all other men's powers ; — Who rul'd, like a wizard, the world... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 530 էջ
...genial a light ; who, with nothing of the poetical hyperbole with which the words were first applied, "ran "Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all." We have lived during the same period with one of those highly gifted men, whom the world has yet produced... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 էջ
...When Truth will be heard, and these lords of a day Be forgotten as fools, or remember'd as worse — " Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man,...Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all ! 1 The sum was two hundred pounds — offered when Ph-rdn could no longer take any Busteaaoco, and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 էջ
...these lords of a day Be forgotten as fools, or remember'd as worse — "Was this, then, the fate ofthat high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower,...Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all! 1 The «um WM two hundred poundi— offered when Sh-rdD could no longer take aoyiueteoaaco, aud declined,... | |
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Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator — dramatist — minstrel,— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all... 
