That which seems the most liable to Exception in this Work, is the Model of it, and the Choice the Author has made of so romantick a Story. The Fairy Queen - Page xiiiby Edmund Spenser - 1758Full view - About this book
| Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - Poets, English - 1753 - 366 pages
...^leafed and diftrafted with the exhauftlefs variety ef them ; fo that his faults may in a manner l)« imputed to his excellencies. His abundance betrays -him into excefs, and his judgment is overborn by the torrent of his imagination. That which feems the moft liable to exception in this work... | |
| New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pages
...we are at once pleafed " and diftradted by the exhauftlefs variety of them : fo that '* his faults may in a manner be imputed to his excellencies. " His abundance betrays him into excels, and his judgment is " over-born by the torrent of his imagination." ;o v • . " § PERONE... | |
| Great Britain - 1791 - 322 pages
...that we are at once pleafed and diftra&ed with the inexhauftible variety of them ; fo that his faults may, in a manner, be imputed to his excellencies....judgment is overborne by the torrent of his imagination. Upon the whole, Mr. Warton feems to have given the moft accurate, candid criticifm on this celebrated... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...us, that we are at once pleafed and diltrafted by the exhauftlefs variety of them, fo that his faults may, in a manner, be imputed to his excellencies : his abundance betrays him into excefs, and his judgement is overborne by the torrent of his imagination. That which feems the molt liable to exception... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...us, that we are at once pleafed and diltra&ed by the exhaultlefs variety of them, fo that his faults may, in a manner, be imputed to his excellencies : his abundance betrays him into excels, and his judgement is overborne by the torrent of his imagination. That which feems the molt... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 446 pages
...exo and his judgment is overhorne hy the torrent of his_ imagmation. That which seems the most liahle to exception in this Work is the model of it, and the choice the Author has made of 8ojomaatigk_ a story_. TOL. IT. • ,\- ?:W— • The several Books appear rather like so many several... | |
| England - 1834 - 918 pages
...if we be wrong — but he was, though not a uniform, a too frequent dunce. " That which seems most liable to exception in this work is the model of it, and the choice the author has made of so romantic a story." Look at this sentence for a minute or two, and you will never think of trying... | |
| William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...the Faerie Queene.3 Hughes, of course, assumes the apologetic attitude. "That which seems the most liable to exception in this work is the model of it, and the choice the author has made of so romantick a story. . . . The whole frame of it (The Fairy Queen) would appear monstrous, if it were... | |
| William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...the Faerie Queene. 3 Hughes, of course, assumes the apologetic attitude. " That which seems the most liable to exception in this work is the model of it, and the choice the author has made of so romantick a story. . . . The whole frame of it (The Fairy Queen) would appear monstrous, if it were... | |
| William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...the -Faerie Queene? Hughes, of course, assumes the apologetic attitude. "That which seems the most liable to exception in this work is the model of it, and the choice the author has made of so romantick a story. . . . The whole frame of it (The Fairy Queen) would appear monstrous, if it were... | |
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