 ... we have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he had subdued his sensitive temperament to the sterner requirements of his art, will be thought a hundred years hence to have been the truest expression in verse...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 1411896Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...Clough might, with some modifications of time and place, be applied to Sill: "We have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects,...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived." WBP BOOKS NEW AND OLD. SUMMER FICTION. MOST people work pretty hard in summer, but subscribe to a theory... | |
 | North American review - 1866 - 662 pages
...and we have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he bad subdued his sensitive temperament to the sterner requirements...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived. To make beautiful conceptions immortal by exquisiteness of phrase, is to be a poet, no doubt ; but... | |
 | North American review - 1866 - 672 pages
...and we have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he bad subdued his sensitive temperament to the sterner requirements...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived. To make beautiful conceptions immortal by exquisiteness of phrase, is to be a poet, no doubt ; but... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Biography & Autobiography - 1871 - 450 pages
...whole generation of versifiers, as the style of a great poet never can be ; and we have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects,...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived. To make beautiful conceptions immortal by exquisiteness of phrase, is to be a poet, no doubt ; but... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1876 - 454 pages
...whole generation of versifiers, as the style of a great poet never can be ; and we have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects,...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived. To make beautiful conceptions immortal by exquisiteness of phrase, is to be a poet, no doubt ; but... | |
 | Booksellers' catalogs - 1878 - 486 pages
...8vo. cloth, new 6s. " We have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects . . . will be thought a hundred years hence to have been...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived." — J. RUSSELL LOWELL. 2686 COLERIDGE, ST [1772—1834], Aids to Reflection, edited by the Rev. Derwent... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...called Ambarvalia in the next year.] ' We have a foreboding,' says Mr. Lowell in one of his essays, ' that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects,...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived.' If doubt and struggle were the ruling tendencies of Clough's time, this lofty estimate may well be... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...called Ambarvalia in the next year.] ' We have a foreboding,' says Mr. Lowell in one of his essays, ' that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects,...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived.' If doubt and struggle were the ruling tendencies of Clough's time, this lofty estimate may well be... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...sensitive temperament to the sterner requirements of hie art, will be thought, a hundred years heneo, to have been the truest expression in verse of the...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived." See the Memoir, by FT Palgrave, prefixed to the foenu (1863); Stiays, by RH Hutton; Quarterly Review... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...called Ambarvalia in the next year.] ' We have a foreboding,' says Mr. Lowell in one of his essays, 'that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects,...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived.' If doubt and struggle were the ruling tendencies of Clough's time, this lofty estimate may well be... | |
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