 I was called upon, among other scholars, to write verses upon the completion of the second centenary from the foundation of the school in 1585 by Archbishop Sandys. These verses were much admired — far more than they deserved, for they were but a tame...  The Quarterly Review - Page 187edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 pages
...the foundation of the school in 1585, by Archbishop Sandys. These verses were much admired, far moro than they deserved, for they were but a tame imitation...of Pope's versification, and a little in his style. This exercise, however, put it into my head to compose verses from the impulse of my own mind, and... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...Academus' grove In heavenly majesty she seem'd to move. Stern was her forehead, but a smile serene much admired, far more than they deserved, for they...but a tame imitation of Pope's versification, and a Close at her side were all the powers, design'd To curb, exalt, reform the tender mind : With panting... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...tender age Spurn Reason's law and humour Passion's rage ; CHAP. II. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORANDA. li deserved, for they were but a tame imitation of Pope's versification, and a little in his style. This exercise, But she who trains the generous British youth In the bright paths of fair majestic Truth... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...finer joy; Nor that vile wretch who bade the tender age Spurn Reason's law and humour Passion's rage ; deserved, for they were but a tame imitation of Pope's versification, and a little in his style. This exercise, But she who trains the generous British youth In the bright paths of fair majestic Truth:... | |
 | 1853 - 614 pages
...composed a school-exercise, upon the completion of the second centenary of their foundation. " The verses," he says, " were much admired, far more than...mind. Two years later Wordsworth wrote a long poem on his own adventures and the surrounding scenery, which we may conclude was of no other value than to... | |
 | English literature - 1853 - 566 pages
...composed a school-exercise, upon the completion of the second centenary of their foundation. ' The verses,' he says, ' were much admired, far more than...mind. Two years later Wordsworth wrote a long poem on his own adventures and the surrounding scenery, which we may conclude was of no other value than to... | |
 | George Brimley - English literature - 1858 - 376 pages
...school by Archbishop Sandys, is preserved; of which, though the poet himself speaks slightingly, as a tame imitation of Pope's versification, and a little in his style, it is not too much to say that very few boys of that age could have possibly written them. His father... | |
 | 1898 - 1146 pages
...of the second centenary from the foundation of the school in J5S5 by Archbishop Sandys. These verses were much admired — far more than they deserved,...Pope's versification, and a little in his style." The real education of the boy — the liberation of his imagination and the unfolding of his spiritual... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...adventures, and the scenery of the country in which I was brought up." These verses, he adds, were admired far more than they deserved, "for they were but a tame imitation of Pope,s versification, and a little in his style." The days he spent at school here, he says, were amongst... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - Cumberland (England) - 1873 - 360 pages
...of the second centenary from the foundation of the school in 1585 by Archbishop Sandys. These verses were much admired, far more than they deserved, for...of Pope's versification, and a little in his style. This exercise, however, put it into my head to compose verses from the impulse of my own mind, and... | |
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