 ... writes Horace Walpole, who had never read a line of Astrophel and Stella, and had to be reminded by a friend of the existence of The Apology for Poetry ', 'what do we find? Great valour? But it was an age of heroes ! In full of all other talents,...  The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine - Stran 1971851Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1758 - 668 strani
...age of heroes.—In fuH ' of all other talents we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, » paftoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love * cannot now wade through ; and fome abfurd attempts to fetter * EngliQi verfe in Roman chains ; a proof that this applauded... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1759 - 288 strani
...age of heroes.. — In full of all other talents we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, paftoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through ; and fome abfurd attempts to fetter Englifh verfe in Roman chains ; a proof that this applauded author... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 strani
...was an age of heroes. In full of all other talents we have " a tedious, lamentable pedantic, paftoral "romance, which " the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade " through ; and fome abfurd attempts to fetter Englifli verfe " in Roman chains : a proof, that this applauded... | |
 | Samuel Ireland - 1793 - 298 strani
...productions, he obferves, " in full " of all other talents we have a tedious, " lamentable, pedantic, paftoral romance, " which the patience of a young virgin in " love cannot now wade through." NOTWITHSTANDING there may be fome truth in this remark, yet with due refpecl: to the difcernment of... | |
 | George Mason - 1795 - 254 strani
...mak•* ing order in confufion."*— Have I quoted that "tedious, lamentable, pedantic, paf" toral romance, which the patience of a " young virgin in love cannot now wade '•* through ?"-(- Such is the character impofed upon it by an eminent modern. Yet (I believe) many readers of Arcadia... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 478 strani
...heroes. — In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance4, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through; and some absurd attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains; a proof that this applauded author... | |
 | John Aikin - 1814 - 662 strani
...Orford (Horace Walpole), who, indeed, has been generally unfavourable to the fame of Sidney. He terms it " a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance,...of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through." But Dr. Zouch, the late biographer of Sir Philip, while he acknowledges that the changes in taste and... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 strani
...Arcadia a treasure to all whose taste is not thoroughly depraved. Horace Walpole has indeed called it a " lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the...of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through ;" but we apprehend that his censure will be heeded only by the few who are ignorant that Horace Walpole... | |
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...pronounced it 'a tedious, hmentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin hi love cannot now wade through.' From these very expressions...heroic poem, in which pictures of pastoral life are introduced only as occasional decorations. * * • Its spirit, in so far as it in that of any peculiar... | |
 | 1845 - 444 strani
...perhaps as unjust as his praise has been sometitnes overstrained. Horace Walpole calls the Arcadia, " a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance,...of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through;" and Hazlitt, perhaps more honest, confesses that he cannot acquire a taste for it. As far as Walpole's... | |
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