 | George Ellis - 1811 - 466 pages
...politician as well as poet. The characters of a king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the Earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always...filled with descriptions of battles ; but in those of Barbour our attention is successively directed to the cool intrepidity of King Robert, to the brilliant... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always...filled with descriptions of battles ; but in those of Barbour our attention is successively directed to the cool intrepidity of king Robert, to the brilliant... | |
 | 1814 - 540 pages
...as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always...strength. Both poems are filled with descriptions of batp> ties ; but in those of Barbour our attention is successively directed to the cool intrepidity... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 536 pages
...as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always...judgment; so that every event is prepared and rendered prohable by thte means to which it is attributed ; whereas the life of Wallace is a mere romance, in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 pages
...Douglas, and of the earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always emr ployed with judgment ; so that every event is prepared and rendered probable by the means to whiph it is attrir buted ; whereas the life of Wallace is a mere romance, in which the hero hews down... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 pages
...as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the Earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always...victory to his own muscular strength. Both poems are rilled with descriptions of battles ; but, in those of Barbour, our attention is successively directed... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 pages
...as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the Earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always...filled with descriptions of battles ; but, in those of Barbour, our attention b successively directed to the cool intrepidity of King Robert, to the brilliant... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - 1822 - 458 pages
...as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the Earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always...judgment; so that every event is prepared and rendered prohable by the means to which it is attributed ; whereas, the Life of Wallace is a mere romance, in... | |
 | George Ellis - 1845 - 382 pages
...a king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the Earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their scparate talents always employed with judgment ; so that every...and rendered probable by the means to which it is to be attributed : whereas the life of Wallace is a mere romance, in which the hero hews down whole... | |
 | David Irving - 1861 - 662 pages
...discriminated, 1 Dempster! Hint. EcclesiMt. Gent, Scotor ยป Warton's Hist of English Poetry, vol. II. and their separate talents always employed with judgment;...filled with descriptions of battles ; but in those of Barbour our attention is successively directed to the cool intrepidity of King Robert, to the brilliant... | |
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Bruce," says an elegant critic, " is evidently the work of a politician as well as poet. The characters of the king, of his brother, of Douglas, and of the earl of Moray, are discriminated, and their separate talents always employed with judgment ; so... 
