 | 1835 - 932 pages
...harvest is so abundant that the negligent search of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf. The most striking characteristic of the poetry of...associations by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests ; not so much by the... | |
 | Robert Bell - Poets, English - 1839 - 430 pages
...Writings - - - 231 Differences of Opinion concerning the Merits of his " Paradise Lost " - - - - -233 The most striking Characteristic of the Poetry of Milton is the extreme Remotenesss of the Associations by means of which it Acts upon the Reader - - ••»s, • -235 Hazlitt's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...harvest is so abundant, that the negligent search of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf. The most striking characteristic of the poetry of...associations, by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests, not so much by the... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man." * Whan Mr. Macaulay tells us, that the most striking characteristic of the poetry of...associations, by means of which it acts on the reader, — that its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests, — that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...harvest is м abundant that the negligent search of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf. The most striking characteristic of the poetry of...remoteness of the associations, by means of which it acts OD the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests, not... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...intelligible without effort to every educated understanding. MACAULAY'S MISCELLANIES, MILTON'S POETRY. THE most striking characteristic of the poetry of...associations, by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests, not so much by the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...harvest is so abundant, that the negligent seareh of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf. The most striking characteristic of the poetry of...associations by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests; not so much by the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...harvest is so abundant that the negligent search of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf. f The most striking characteristic of the poetry of...Milton is the extreme remoteness of the associations \iy means of which it acts on the reader. r's effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...harvest is so abundant that the negligent search of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf. h Greek inscriptions, r ! " 1852 A. Hart ]person, to make h w:>ociations. by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much l>v what... | |
| |
The most striking characteristic of the poetry of Milton is the extreme remoteness of the associations by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas... 
