 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...the poem runs as follows : — ' This poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines which...necessary to make the imitation more perfect. And v the style of that admirable poet, as well as the measure in which he wrote, are, as it were, appropriated... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1893 - 332 pages
...ween,3 a lovely spot of ground ; 1 " This poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...wrote, are, as it were, appropriated by custom to allegorical poems writ in our language; just as in French the style of Marot, who lived under Francis... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 pages
...Shenstone's notions. He says, " This poem being written in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...were necessary to make the imitation more perfect." We can only wish that Thomson had seen fit to give free expression to his -love for Spenser, and omitted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...most juvenile parodist. Thomson who in his Castle of Indolence considered that 'the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...were necessary to make the imitation more perfect,' can hardly be said either to have honoured Spenser's poetic name, or raised his own by that elaborate... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 pages
...Shenstone's notions. He says, " This poem being written in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...were necessary to make the imitation more perfect." We can only wish that Thomson had seen fit to give free expression to his love for Spenser, and omitted... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 pages
...Shenstone's notions. He says, " This poem being written in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...were necessary to make the imitation more perfect." We can only wish that Thomson had seen fit to give free expression to his love for Spenser, and omitted... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...most juvenile parodist. Thomson who in his Castle of Indolence considered that 'the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...were necessary to make the imitation more perfect," can hardly be said either to have honoured Spenser's poetic name, or raised his own by that elaborate... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 520 pages
...Indolence, the author says : "This poem, being written in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines which...were necessary to make the imitation more perfect." The poem is divided into two cantos, having respectively seventy-eight and seventy-nine stanzas. The... | |
 | James Thomson - 1908 - 622 pages
...is given here.] ADVERTISEMENT This Poem being •writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines -which...in our language — just as in French the style of Marot, who lived under Francis I, has been used in tales and familiar epistles by the politest writers... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...stanzas 1-11, 19-22, 24-29, 33-43. "This poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines,...writ in our language; just as in French the style of Marot, who lived under Francis I, has been used in tales and familiar epistles by the politest writers... | |
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This Poem being writ in the manner of Spenser, the obsolete words, and a simplicity of diction in some of the lines which borders on the ludicrous, were necessary to make the imitation more perfect. 
