...expressly as objects of admiration. The two lines " Ne'er sigh'd at the sound," &c. are, in my opinion, an instance of the language of passion wrested from...passage, though perhaps few Readers will agree with me, as vicious poetic diction. The last stanza is throughout admirably expressed: it would be equally good...

...expressly as objects of admiration. The two lines " Ne'er sigh'd at the sound," &c. are, in my opinion, an instance of the language of passion wrested from...passage, though perhaps few Readers will agree with me, as vicious poetic diction. The last stanza is throughout admirably expressed : it would be equally...

...expressly as objects of admiration. The two lines " Ne'er sighed at the sound," &c. are, in my opinion, an instance of the language of passion wrested from...passage, though perhaps few Readers will agree with me, as vicious poetic diction. The last stanza is throughout admirably expressed : it would be equally...

...lines, « Ne'er sigh'd at the sound, » etc.. are, in my opinion, an instance of the language of passioo wrested from its proper use, and, from the mere circumstance of the composition being in metre, applied upou an occasion that does not justify such violent «pressions ; and I should condemn the passage,...

..." chide" and « insult," in this passage, affords a striking illustration of what Wordsworth calls "the language of passion wrested from its proper use,...mere circumstance of the composition being in metre," (this is the thing we were condemning a little while back,) " applied upon an occasion which does not...

...Ne'er sighed at the sound,' &e., are, in my opinion, an instance of the language of passion WTested from its proper use, and, from the mere circumstance...passage, though perhaps few Readers will agree with me, as vicious poetic dietion. The last stanza is throughout admirably expressed : it would be equally...

...expressly as objects of admiration. The two lines ' Ne'er sighed at the sound,' &c., are, in my opinion, an instance of the language of passion wrested from...composition being in metre, applied upon an occasion that docs not justify such violent expressions ; and I should condemn the passage, though perhaps few Readers...

...expressly as objects of admiration. The two lines ' Ne'er sighed at the sound,' &c., are, in my opinion, an instance of the language of passion wrested from...not justify such violent expressions; and I should j condemn the passage, though perhaps few Readers will agree with me, as vicious poetic diction. The...

...done : for he proceeds to say " the two lines ' Ne'er sighed at the sound,' &c., are, in my opinion, an instance of the language of passion wrested from...occasion that does not justify such violent expressions." Again I ask how is this dreamy expositor of his own foolish dogmas to be conciliated ? We have * The...

...but when the happiest illustration of the fact is adduced from the pen of another, he quotes it as " an instance of the language of passion wrested from its proper use, and applied upon an occasion that does not justify such violent expressions." The cultivated reader will...