 If I were asked where English poetry got these three things, its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for natural magic, for catching and rendering the charm of nature in a wonderfully near and vivid way, — I should answer, with some...  The Cornhill Magazine - Pàgina 110editat per - 1866Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1894 - 854 pàgines
...books — Arnold says that English poetry derived three things mainly from Celtic sources : Its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for natural magic. The distinction is indicated with admirable fineness ; and my perceptions are not quite fine enough... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pàgines
...LITERATURE. PAKT IV. — CONCLUSION. IF I were asked where English poetry got these three things — its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for...much of its melancholy from a Celtic source; with BO doubt at all, that from a Celtic source it got all its natural magic. Any German with penetration... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 840 pàgines
...English poetry got these three things — its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its tarn for natural magic, for catching and rendering the charm of nature in a wonderfully near and vivid war, I should answer, with some doubt, that it got much of its turn for style from a Celtic source... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 214 pàgines
...follow it before I have done. VI. If I were asked where English poetry got these three things, its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for...no doubt at all, that from a Celtic source it got nearly all its natural magic. Any German with penetration and tact in matters of literary criticism... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 218 pàgines
...follow it before I have done. VI. If I were asked where English poetry got these three things, its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for...the charm of nature in a wonderfully near and vivid way,—I should answer, with some doubt, that it got much of its turn for style from a Celtic source;... | |
 | Robert Everett - 1867 - 828 pàgines
...produced a Shakespeare. If I were asked," says he, " where English poetry got these three things, its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for...for catching and rendering the charm of nature in a wonderful near and vivid way, I should answer with some doubt, that it got much of its turn for style... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1869 - 916 pàgines
...sources of English poetry : ' If I were asked ' where English poetry got these three things — its turn for style, ' its turn for melancholy, and its turn...of its turn for style from a Celtic source ; with lese ' doubt, that it got much of its melancholy from a Celtic source ; ' with no doubt at all, that... | |
 | 1870 - 936 pàgines
...upon English Literature : " "If I were a?ked where English poetry got theee three things, it? tarn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for natural magic for catehing and rendering the chsrm of nature in a wonderfully near and vivid way, I should answer, with... | |
 | Ulick Joseph Bourke - 1875 - 588 pàgines
...POETBY. Mathew Arnold says : " If I were asked where English poetry got these three things — its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for natural magic, for catch. ug n ml rendering the charm of nature in a wonderfully rielar and vivid way — I should answer,... | |
 | Ulick Joseph Bourke - 1875 - 576 pàgines
...— I should answer, with much doubt, that it got much of its turn for style from a Keltic source j with less doubt, that it got much of its melancholy from a Keltic source ; with no doubt at all, that from a Keltic source it got nearly all its natural magic.'7... | |
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