 | 1824 - 494 pàgines
...with great a,lmiration and delight. I hare always considered the letters of Mr. Cowper as the f,nest specimen of the epistolary style in our language ;...these appear to me of a superior description to the formei, us much beauty with more piety and pathos. To an air of inimitable ease and carelessness, they... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 404 pàgines
...to me, on the nineteenth of August of the present year, he writes thus: * The Rev. Legh Richmond " It is quite unnecessary to say that I perused the...style in our language; and these appear to me of a supeior description to the former, possessing as much beauty with more piety and pathos. To an air... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pàgines
...which he may safely accept as worth more than any anonymous one that is likely to be offered to him. " It is quite unnecessary to say that I perused the...specimen of the epistolary style in our language ; and tittle appear to me of a superior description to the former, as much beauty with more piety and pathos.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 436 pàgines
...Leicester. In a letter addressed to me, on the nineteenth of August of the present year, he writes thus : " It is quite unnecessary to say that I perused the...Mr. Cowper as the finest specimen of the epistolary stile in our language; and these appear to me of a superior description to the former, possessing as... | |
 | 1824 - 744 pàgines
...volumes were submitted in MS. expresses himself as ful Iowa. " It is quite unnecessary to say4hat 1 perused the letters with great admiration and delight....specimen of the epistolary style in our language; »nd Ihue appear to me of a superior description to tbc former, possessing as much beauty with more... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pàgines
...so fully agree in the concluding part of the sentence, as a, general description : " and t kete are of a superior description to the former, possessing as much beauty, with more piety and pathos." Some of them, indeed, are pre-emiiicutly distinguished by these qualities, and cannot be read but with... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pàgines
...great interest ; and, in the opinion of so competent an authority as the Rev. Robert Hall, " they are of a superior description to the former, possessing as much beauty with more piety and pathos." These volumes we had just perused, for the purpose of reviewing them, when a critique upon them in... | |
 | 1825 - 426 pàgines
...and so elegantly expressed, that we copy it entire. " It is quite unnecessary to say that I penned the letters with great admiration and delight. I have always considered the letters of Mr Cowper a* the finest specimen of epistolary style in our language ; and that appear to me ol a superior description... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pàgines
...which he lived. In a letter to Rev. J. Johnson, Cowper's justly esteemed relative, he thus writes. " It is quite unnecessary to say that I perused the...considered the letters of Mr. Cowper as the finest specimens of the epistolary style in our language. To an air of inimitable ease and carelessness, they... | |
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... as much beauty with more piety and pathos. To an air of inimitable ease and carelessness, they unite a high degree of correctness, such as could result only from the clearest intellect, combined with the most finished taste. 
