 Upon the whole, Mr. Milton seems to be possessed of some fancy and talent for rhyming ; two most dangerous endowments, which often unfit men for acting a useful part in life, without qualifying them for that which is great and brilliant. If it be true,...  The Monthly Magazine - Pàgina 3151810Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 pàgines
...lullabies ' ; and after some pleasantries concerning the fabled pedigree of Mirth, the thing concludes : Upon the whole Mr. Milton seems to be possessed of...dangerous endowments, which often unfit men for acting a useful part in life, without qualifying them for that which is great and brilliant. . . . With the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1916 - 674 pàgines
...L' Allegro. A poem by John Milton. No Printer's Name.' ' Upon the whole,' the reviewer concludes, ' Mr Milton seems to be possessed of some fancy and talent for rhyming ; trwo most dangerous endowments, which often unfit men for acting a useful part in life, without qualifying... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1993 - 192 pàgines
...with a Specimen of the Art (1807), his "specimen of the art" being a "review" of Milton's L'Allegro: "Upon the whole, Mr. Milton seems to be possessed of some fancy and talent for rhyming . . . , but it is not all the Zephyrs, and Auroras, and Corydons, and Thyrsis's, aye, not his junketing... | |
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