 His former 1 1 have spoken in many places rather too bitterly and confidently of the faults of Mr. Wordsworth's poetry : And forgetting that, even on my own view of them, they were but faults of taste, or venial self-partiality, have sometimes visited...  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 121844Full view - About this book
 | Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 564 pages
...his collected essays Jeffrey regretted the tone of some of these remarks on Wordsworth and concluded: "If I were now to deal with the whole question of...different, I hope I should repress the greater part of these vivacités of expression." 279. a. 23. Lakers. Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth were dubbed... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English literature - 1928 - 258 pages
...bitterly and con* fidently of the faults of Mr. Wordsworth' s poetry : and forgetting that, even on my own view of them, they were but faults of taste, or venial...the whole question of his poetical merits, though my judgement might not be substantially different, I hope I should repress the greater part of these vivacites... | |
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