 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
 | John Macmillan Brown - English literature - 1894 - 436 pages
...POETRY ' ... 999 protests against the " application of gross and violent stimulants" to the human mind, "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse", and thinks that the "thirst after outrageous stimulation " has arisen from " the great national events... | |
 | Ernst Margraf - Comparative literature - 1901 - 92 pages
...„The invaluable works of our older writers, l 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." Ist dies Urteil, sofern es sich auf Kotzebue bezieht, als durchaus gerechtfertigt zu betrachten, so... | |
 | Ernst Margraf - Comparative literature - 1901 - 92 pages
...of our older writers, l had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into negleet by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse." Ist dies Urteil, sofern es sich auf Kotzebue bezieht, als durchaus gerechtfertigt zu betrachten, so... | |
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - English fiction - 1902 - 486 pages
...stimulation " which, Wordsworth rightly charged, the taste of his day produced, one hundred years ago, in " frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse." Like Wordsworth, George Eliot strove to reproduce ' the emotional motive kindling her imagination,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors, English - 1905 - 292 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. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have... | |
 | David Watson Rannie - English literature - 1907 - 422 pages
...our elder writers," he wrote in 1800, " 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." Such being Wordsworth's temper, it is a matter of interest to observe his relation to his great poetic... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 344 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...and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse '. 23. Kotzebue and his imitators. Kotzebue, the parent of modern melodrama, born 1761, assassinated... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 348 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...and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse '. 23. Kotzebue and his imitators. Kotzebue, the parent of modern melodrama, born 1761, assassinated... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 636 pages
...conventional poetic diction — the ' degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation,' which was catered for by ' frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.'* This extract from the Preface is enough to dispel the old illusion, if it anywhere survives, that Wordsworth... | |
 | Books - 1910 - 482 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 stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extrava. gant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading \thirst after outrageous stimulation,... | |
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