 | Acton Frederick Griffiths - 1815 - 628 pages
...is professedly confined to England, yet I cannot pass over two Scotch poets of this period, who have adorned the English language, by a strain of versification,...expression, and poetical imagery, far superior to their age ; and who consequently deserve to be mentioned in a general review of the progress of our... | |
 | Longman (Firm), Thomas Park - English poetry - 1815 - 481 pages
...is professedly confined to England, yet I cannot pass over two Scotch poets of this period, who have adorned the English language, by a strain of versification,...expression, and poetical imagery, far superior to their age; and who consequently deserve to be mentioned in a general review of the progress of our... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - Poets, Scottish - 1821 - 414 pages
...there have been few better judges of the comparative merits of our early poets, says, that " Barbour adorned the English language by a strain of versification, expression, and poetical images, far superior to the age." And to these authorities may be added that of Dr. Irving, who pronounces... | |
 | Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 pages
...there have been few better judges of the comparative merits of our early poets, says, that " Barbour adorned the English language by a strain of versification, expression, and poetical images, far superior to the age." And to these authorities may be added that of Dr. Irving, who pronounces... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - Authors, Scottish - 1822 - 458 pages
...there have been few better judges of the comparative merits of our early poets, say s, that " Barbour adorned the English language by a strain of versification, expression, and poetical images, far superior to the age." And to these authorities may be added that of Dr. Irving, who pronounces... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1832 - 504 pages
...pronounced with certainty regarding an author of undoubted genius, who, to use the words of Warton, has " adorned the English language by a strain of versification,...expression, and poetical imagery far superior to his age 3 ," is, that, after having studied in middle life at Oxford, and subsequently in France, he began... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1832 - 346 pages
...pronounced with certainty regarding an author of undoubted genius, who, to use the words of Warton, has " adorned the English language by a strain of versification,...expression, and poetical imagery far superior to his age2," is, that, after having studied in middle life at Oxford, and subsequently in France, he began... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Bible - 1845 - 754 pages
...contemporary with Wickliffe and Chaucer, of whom an Englishman, even Wharton, has told us, that he " adorned the English language by a strain of versification,...expression, and poetical imagery, far superior to the age ;" Caledonia had so far already proved herself to be no unmeet " nurse for a poetic child."... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 448 pages
...have preferred, and which is still heard in the speech of Salopian laborers, appears visibly changed in the successive MS. copies that were made during...long prior of a convent on St. Serfs Island, in Loch Levin—one of the most ancient religious establishments in Scotland—has left behind him, in his... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1030 pages
...confined to England, yet I cannot para over two Scotch poets of this period, who have adorned the Knplisb language by a strain of versification, expression, and poetical imagery far superior to their age; and who, consequently, >(••-: -i \ i to be mentioned In a general review of the progress... | |
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Scotch poets of this period, who have adorned the English language, by a strain of versification, expression, and poetical imagery, far superior to their age ; and who consequently deserve to be mentioned in a general review of the progress of our national... 
