 | 1819 - 654 pages
...' not only the early vigour of hig own genius, but the power and pliability of his native tongue : for in the point, and volubility, and vigour of Hall's...might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden. This may be exemplified in the harmony and picturesqueness of the following description of a magnificent,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...formally apologises for *' too much stooping to the lota reach of the vulgar." But in many instances he redeems the antiquity of his allusions by their ingenious...might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden *. This may be exemplified in the harmony and picturesqueness of the following description of a magnificent,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1839 - 1092 pages
...be considered as a model of elegance." Early English Poets, voL ii., p. 3fl(> And Campbell says : " In the point, and volubility, and vigour of Hall's numbers, we might frequently imagine ourselves to be perusof the same kind, I have thrown into a note, lest I should seem to encumber the reader with... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1824 - 982 pages
...with animation of style and sentiment." The whole analysis and criticism is perhaps the chef d' oeuvre of Tom Warton. Nor is Mr. Campbell deficient in a...the list of his works, by Ritson, in his Bibl. Poet. — fur* " By Virgidcmia, an uncootli and uncommon word, we are to understand a Gathering or Harvest... | |
 | John Jones (perpetual curate of Cradley, Worcs.) - 1826 - 616 pages
...a just estimation of the talents of this eminent divine and satirist: "in many instances," says he, "Hall redeems the antiquity of his allusions, by their...might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden." See Specimens, &c. vol. ii, pp. 256-261. In the third Satire of his fifth Book, Hall exhibits the true... | |
 | John Jones - Christian biography - 1826 - 612 pages
...a just estimation of the talents of this eminent divine and satirist: "in many instances," says he, "Hall redeems the antiquity of his allusions, by their...might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden." See Specimens, &c. vol. ii, pp. 256-261. In the third Satire of his fifth Book, Hall exhibits the true... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bible - 1834 - 492 pages
...and his opinion is in harmony with that of previous critics, that " in the point, and volubiill y, and vigour of Hall's numbers, we might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden." — It may seem strange, that a man of so mild and amiable a temperament should have discovered so... | |
 | Joseph Hall, James Hamilton - Bible - 1838 - 644 pages
...only the early vigour of his own genius, but the powers and pliability of his native tongue. • * * In the point, and volubility, and vigour of Hall's...might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden. This may be exemplified in the harmony and picturesqueness of the following description of a magnificent... | |
 | Joseph Hall - England - 1838 - 176 pages
...as much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter." Mr. Campbell adds:— "In the point, volubility, and vigour of Hall's numbers, we might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden."— " They are neither cramped by personal hostility, nor spun out to vague declamation on vice ; but give... | |
 | Joseph Hall - England - 1838 - 190 pages
...much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter." Mr. Campbell adds: — "In the point, volubility, and vigour of Hall's numbers, we might frequently imagine ourselves perusing Dryden." — " They are neither cramped by personal hostility, nor spun out to vague declamation on vice ; but... | |
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But in many instances he redeems the antiquity of his allusions by their ingenious adaptation to modern manners; and this is but a small part of his praise ; for in the point and volubility and vigour of Hall's numbers we might frequently imagine ourselves... 
