 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...the romantic wildness of the story ; and I ilo not hesitate Co say, that, had any other known measure been adopted, the poem would have been deprived of half its beauty, and all its propriety. In blank verse it would have been absurd; in rhyme insipid. The lyrical manner is admirably adapted... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English literature - 1808 - 358 pages
...the romantic wildness of the story; and I do not hesitate to say, that, bad any other known measure been' adopted, the poem would have been deprived of half its beauty, and all its propriety. In blank verse it would have been absurd; in rhyme insipid. The lyrical manner is admirably adapted... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...the romantic wildness of the story; and I do not hesitate to say, that, had any other known measure been adopted, the poem would have been deprived of half its beauty, and all its propriety. In blank verse it would have been absurd ; in rhyme insipid. The lyrical manner te admirably adapted... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 336 pages
...the romantic wildness of the story ; and I do not hesitate to say, that, had any other known measure been adopted, the poem would have been deprived of half its beauty, and all its propriety. In blank verse it would have been absurd ; in rhyme insipid. The lyrical manner is admirably adapted... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English poetry - 1827 - 486 pages
...the romantic wildness of the story ; and I do not hesitate to say, that, had any other known measure been• adopted, the poem would have been deprived of half its beauty, and all its propriety. In blank verse it would have been absurd ; in rhyme, insipid. The lyrical manner is admirably adapted... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English essays - 1829 - 426 pages
...the romantic wildness of the story; and I do not hesitate to say, that, had any other known measure been adopted, the poem would have been deprived of half its beauty, and all its propriety. In blank verse it would have been absurd ; in rhyme, insipid. The lyrical manner is admirably adapted... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 636 pages
...was, that the freedom and variety of such verse were suited to the story. Indeed, of all the laudatory a long literary life, none ever gratified me more...could not have desired more appropriate commendation. The same sense of fitness which made me chuse for an Arabian tale the simplest and easiest form of... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1844 - 526 pages
...the romantic wildness of the story ; and I do not hesitate to say, that, had any other known measure been adopted, the poem would have been deprived of half its beauty, and all its propriety. lu blank verse it would have been absurd; in rhyme, insipid. The lyrical manner is admirably adapted... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1845 - 848 pages
...verse were suited to the story. Indeed, of all the laudatory criticisms with which I have been favoured i O The same sense of fitness which made me choose for an Arabian tale the simplest and easiest form of... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1845 - 848 pages
...verse were suited to the story. Indeed, of all the laudatory criticisms with which I have been favoured during a long literary life, none ever gratified me...half its beauty, and all its propriety. And when he added,that the author never seemed to inquire how other men would treat a subject, or what might be... | |
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I have been favored during a long literary life, none ever gratified me more than that of Henry Kirke White upon this occasion, when he observed, that, if any other known measure had been adopted, the poem would have been deprived of half its beauty,... 
