 The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 264by John Wilson - 1842Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the Works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse,— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation I am almost ashamed to have spoken... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges bf idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1814 - 216 pages
...gratify, the taste of society has become so vitiated and so accustomed to gross stimulants, such as " frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse," as to require the counteraction of some simpler and more primitive food, •which should restore to... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have spoken... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have spoken... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse." We allow to a considerable extent the correctness of this reasoning, but believe it insufficient. We... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1840 - 370 pages
...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakspeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.—When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...the stories, the speeches, the words, the sentences (which are indeed of a breathless length),—and yet, awful to relate, it is only the third part "...Wordsworth himself I consider less a moulding spirit of the jjge A than"a pervertedjjrodjjc.tipn of it. He began to write at the"era^" when men were wearied with... | |
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