 Massy diamonds compose the very substance of his poem on the Metempsychosis, thoughts and descriptions which have the fervent and gloomy sublimity of Ezekiel or Aeschylus, whilst a diamond dust of rhetorical brilliancies is strewed over the whole of his...  De Quincey's Writings - Página 225por Thomas De Quincey - 1853Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 páginas
...brilliances is strewed over the whole of his occasional verses und his proie. No criticism was evmore unhappy than that of Dr. Johnson's, which denounces all this artificial display as во much perversion of taste. There cannot be s falser thought than this; for, upon that principle,... | |
 | Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan - 1857 - 414 páginas
...fervent and gloomy sublimity of Ezekiel or Eschylus, whilst a diamond dust of rhetorical brilliance is strewed over the whole of his occasional verses...No criticism was ever more unhappy than that of Dr Johnson, which denounces all this artificial display as so much perversion of taste. There cannot be... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 páginas
...fervent and gloomy sublimity of Ezekiel or ./Eschylus, whilst a diamond dust of rhetorical brilliancies is strewed over the whole of his occasional verses...Johnson's, which denounces all this artificial display as BO much perversion of taste. There cannot be a falser thought than this; for, upon that principle,... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 páginas
...whilst a Diamond dust of rhetorical brilliancies is rtrered over the whole of his occasional Terses and his prose. No criticism was ever more unhappy than that of Dr. Johnson's, »hich denounces all this artificial display as »much perversion of taste." Well said, De Quincey.... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - 310 páginas
...fervent and gloomy sublimity of Ezekiel and ^Sschylus ; whilst a diamond dust of rhetorical brilliancy is strewed over the whole of his occasional verses...artificial display as so much perversion of taste." Well said, De Quincey ! Of course we think it well said, because it sides with our own notions ; and,... | |
 | Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson - 1924 - 386 páginas
...fervent and gloomy sublimity of Ezekiel or Aeschylus, whilst a diamond dust of rhetorical brilliancies is strewed over the whole of his occasional verses and his prose.' a Most readers, however, will agree with Professor Grierson : ' In no poem is the least attractive... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1876 - 586 páginas
...gloomy sublimity of Ezekiel or yEschylus, whilst a diamond dust* of rhetorical brilliances is showered over the whole of his occasional verses and his prose....No criticism was ever more unhappy than that of Dr. Johnson, which denounces all this artificial display as so much perversion of taste. There cannot be... | |
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