 | 1829 - 512 páginas
...inconsiderately classes him in company with Cowley, &c., under the title of Metaphysical Poets ; but Rhetorical would have been a more accurate designation....Donne ; for he combined what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 páginas
...management of the thoughts, and only a secondary one upon the ornaments of style. Few writers havo shown a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne ; for he combined what no other man has ever dono — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 382 páginas
...inconsiderately classes him in company with Cowley, &c., under the title of Metaphysical Poets ; but Rhetorical would have been a more accurate designation....Donne ; for he combined what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 372 páginas
...inconsiderately classes him in company with Cowley, &c., under the title of Metaphysical Poets ; but Rhetorical would have been a more accurate designation....Donne ; for he combined what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 372 páginas
...inconsiderately classes him in company with Cowley, &c., under the title of Metaphysical Poets ; but Rhetorical would have been a more accurate designation....Donne ; for he combined what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 370 páginas
...inconsiderately classes him in company with Cowley, &c., under the title of Metaphysical Poets ; but Rhetorical would have been a more accurate designation....Donne ; for he combined what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
 | Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan - 1857 - 414 páginas
...style. Few writers have shewn a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne, for he coirtbtned the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty. Many diamonds compose the very substance of his poem on the Metempsychosis, thoughts and descriptions... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 páginas
...since. De Quincey says, alluding partly to them, and partly to his poetry, — ' Few writers have shewn a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne, for he combined — what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1861 - 638 páginas
...etc., under the title of Metaphysical Poets : metaphysical they were not ; Rhetorical would have been n more accurate designation. In saying that, however,...Donne ; for he combined what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 páginas
...in the English literature is Donne. Dr. Johnson inconsiderately classes him in company with Co\viey, &c., under the title of Metaphysical Poets : metaphysical...Donne ; for he combined what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.... | |
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Few writers have shown a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne ; for he combined — what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty. 
