 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 410 pages
...about the same time he says elsewhere: " What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes, and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse or to give them the other harmony of prose; I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit and become familiar to... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 384 pages
...at about the same time he says elsewhere: "What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes, and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose ; I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit and become familiar to... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1894 - 202 pages
...sought to produce the effect of his pictures. 3. Another source of annoyance and disappointment is found in the imperfections and inconsistencies of...material, original or borrowed, an incontinence of the*descriptive faculty, which was ever ready to exercise itself on any object, the most unfitting... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Criticism - 1896 - 330 pages
...it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and 1 No one now believes this. An excellent discussion of the subject will... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1898 - 396 pages
...about the same time he says elsewhere : "What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes, and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verso or to give them the other harmony of prose ; I have so long studied and practised both, that... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 348 pages
...it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast...reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the 30 other harmony of prose : I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit,... | |
 | Richard William Church - Poets, English - 1901 - 206 pages
...3. Another source of annoyance and disappointment is found in the imperfections and inconsisteneiea of the poet's standard of what is becoming to say...of the descriptive faculty, which was ever ready to t exercise itself on any object, the most unfitting and loathsome, as on the noblest, the purest, or... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - Poetry - 1901 - 528 pages
...felicity, gives the key of the whole matter. " Thoughts," he says in his preface to the Fables, " thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose" Since Turgot1 told France and the world that a new kind of poetry had come in the guise of Gessner's... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1901 - 862 pages
...mind, the reader must determine." ยง II. " Thoughts," he says in the same place, " come crowding on so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to ^ject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied... | |
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What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject ; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose. 
