 In our own English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in...  The American Journal of Education - Page 344edited by - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 pages
...impatient humour : — In our own English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor,...the same sense might have been conveyed with equal forceand dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp and lyre, Mute, Muses and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 388 pages
...English compositions, (at least for the las three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to S phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound...Hippocrene were all an abomination to him. In fancy 10 I can almost hear him now, exclaiming "Harp? Harp? Lyre ? Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 388 pages
...compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to 5 phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound...Hippocrene were all an abomination to him. In fancy 10 I can almost hear him now, exclaiming "Harp? Harp? Lyre ? Pen and ink, boy, you mean I Muse, boy,... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Authors, English - 1907 - 848 pages
...compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to phrase, I metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense,...might h^ave been conveyed with equal force and dignity I \ in plainer vtorAs.jLute, harp, and lyre, Muse, Muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus and... | |
 | Hugh I'Anson Fausset - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 366 pages
...the logical, he disdained alike the imaginative and the effusive, the sublime and the affected. No phrase, metaphor, or image, 'unsupported by a sound...conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words' could survive the thrust of his realism. 'Harp? Harp? Lyre?' he would sneer: Ten and ink, boy, you... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...the original text. In our own English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor,...been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.1 Lute, harp and lyre, Muse, Muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene were... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...to the King, 1728: Works 1654 in the catalogue appears to be (1774-8) v' 130. C had read an error. or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the...been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.i Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene, were... | |
 | 376 pages
...the original text. In our own English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor,...been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.1 Lute, harp and lyre, Muse, Muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene were... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1819 - 608 pages
...three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported uy a sound sense, or where the same sense might have...dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre muse, п., ises, rnd inspirations — Pegasus, Parnassus, am! Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him.... | |
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