...dramatic compositions should on any other occasion discover nothing but impotence and poverty. He has in d * engrave 5 unpunished 6 complain To cause thy lovers sigh and swoon ; Then sh hi versification ; yet, if I were required to select "from the whole mass of English poetry the most...

...want of sympathy, (not to speak irreverently,) with poetry of the highest order, tells us, that if he were "required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph," (observe the instinct of that word !) " he knows not what he could prefer to an exclamation in the...

...Stranger still is it that Dr. Johnson said of the description of the temple * in the second act that 'if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical passage, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride.' It is idle to discuss...

...that ' if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical passage, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride.' It is idle to discuss the vagaries of criticism, though few will be found now to mistake the Miltonic...

...dramatic compositions should on any other occasion discover nothing but impotence and poverty. He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection...could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : Almeria. It was a fancy'd noise ; for all is hush'd. Leonora. It bore the accent of a human voice....

...dramatic compositions should on any other occasion discover nothing but impotence and poverty. He has in ling the lads to him, spoke thus : " Sons, because...provided each of you (here they are) a new coat. Now, yo Aim. It was a fancy 'd noise; for all is hush 41. Leo. It bore the accent of a human voice. Aim. It...

...And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Of this passage, Dr. Johnson says, " that if he " were to select from the whole mass of " English poetry the most poetical paragraph, " he knows not what he could prefer to this " description." This writer remembers to- have heard him...

...passages in Congreve and Shakespeare. In the Life of Congreve comes this astonishing passage: He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection...could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride: "ALMERIA. It was a fancy'd noise; for all is hush'd. LEONORA. It bore the accent of a human voice....

...dramatick compositions should on any other occasion discover nothing but impotence and poverty. He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection...could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride .ALMEEIA. It was a fancy'd noise ; for all is hush'd. LEONORA. It bore the accent of a human voice....

...Winter's Tale, iv. 4. The passage alluded to by Hazlitt is quoted by Johnson in his Life of Congreve. " If I were required to select from the whole mass of...could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : Almeria. It was a fancied noise; for all is hush'd. Leonora. It bore the accent of a human voice....