 Extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous, and musical, is one of the grand beauties of lyric poetry. This I have always aimed at, and never could attain...  Essays and Criticisms - Strana 199autor/autoři: Thomas Gray - 1911 - 378 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 str.
...from one of these I extract the following passage, which seems to explain this matter more fully i " Extreme conciseness of expression, yet " pure, perspicuous,...poetry: This I have always aimed at, and never could at'' tain. The necessity of rhyming is one great obstacle to it: An'' other, and perhaps a stronger,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 str.
...from one of these I extract the following passage, which seems to explain this matter more fully : ' Extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous,...that way you have chosen, of casting down your first thoughts carelessly and at large, and then clipping them here and there at leisure. This method, after... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 str.
...from one of these I extract the following passage, which seems to explain this matter more fully : " Extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous,...of lyric poetry : this I have always aimed at, and could never attain. The necessity of rhyming is one great obstacle to it : another, and perhaps a stronger,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 str.
...passage, which seems to explain this matter more fully : " Extreme conciseness of expression, yet fure, perspicuous, and musical, is one of the grand beauties of lyric poetry: this have always aimed at, aud could never attain. The necessity of rhyming is.one great obstacle to it... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 str.
...from one of these I extract the following passage, which seems to explain this matter more fully : ' Extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous,...that way you have chosen, of casting down your first thoughts carelessly and at large, and then clipping them here and there at leisure. This method, after... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 str.
...stanza ; the image of Death in arms is very fine and gallant, but I banish " free-born train," and " glory and luxury" here (not the ideas, but the words),...pure, perspicuous, and musical, is one of the grand * Northern Antiquities, translated from Mons. Mallet's Introduction •• 1' Histoire de Dannemark,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 str.
...stanza ; the image of Death in arms is very fine and gallant, but I banish " free-born train," and " glory and luxury" here (not the ideas, but the words),...pure, perspicuous, and musical, is one of the grand * Northern Antiquities, translated from Mons. Mallet's Introduction i 1' Histoire de Dannemark, 2 vols.... | |
 | 1854 - 544 str.
...against this practice :— ' Extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, conspicuous, and musiwi, is one of the grand beauties of lyric poetry ; this I have always aimed a;. and never could attain. The necessity of rhyming is one great obstacle to it : another, and, perhaps,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1855 - 596 str.
...many other places. " Now they charge," &c. looks as if the coursers rode upon the men. A ghost docs not fall. These are all my little objections, but...pure, perspicuous, and musical, is one of the grand * Northern Antiquities, translated from MODS. Mallet's Introduction a l' Histoirc de Dannemark, 2 vols.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1917 - 736 str.
...retains the notion of poetry as a happy combination of words. Gray, in a letter to Mason, says : ' Extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous,...musical, is one of the grand beauties of lyric poetry ' ; adding ' this I have always aimed at and could never attain.' Gray's instrument was always the... | |
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