 When we, at this distance of time, inquire what prodigious merits excited such admiration, what do we find? Great valour. — But it was an age of heroes. — In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which...  A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Side 219af Horace Walpole - 1806Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Fitzmaurice-Kelly - 1892 - 424 sider
...is, indeed, as Horace Walpole said of the Arcadia, "a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through." The aprobacion which precedes the Galatea was signed by Lucas Gracian Dantisco (the author, later,... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 630 sider
...undoubtedly prove wearisome to modern readers. Horace Walpole was not far wrong when he asserted that " the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through " that jungle of pastoral, sentimental, and hcroical adventures. A brief outline of the tale, together... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 sider
...of heroes ! In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot...attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains.' There could scarcely be a better specimen of the jitgemeut saugrenu. Happily the antiquarian revival... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 sider
...of heroes ! In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot...attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains.' There could scarcely be a better specimen of the jugemeut saugrenu. Happily the antiquarian revival... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 sider
...of heroes ! In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot...attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains.' There could scarcely be a better specimen of the jugement sangrentt. Happily the antiquarian revival... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 sider
...heroes. — In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot...of his own language. The few of his letters extant are poor matters ; one to a steward of his father, an instance of unwarrantable violence. By far the... | |
 | Edward William Edmunds - 1920 - 294 sider
...contemporaries, what do we find ? . . . . we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot...attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains. — HORACE WAU>OI,K. The ideal of his generation, and for us the sweetest interpreter of its aspirations.—... | |
 | Arthur Platt - 1927 - 250 sider
...remember what Horace Walpole said of Sidney's Arcadia: "a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through." About this time Cervantes married a young lady of nineteen, Dona Catalina de Palacios Salazar y Vozmediano.... | |
 | Jan Adrianus van Dorsten, Dominic Baker-Smith, Arthur F. Kinney - 1986 - 268 sider
...admiration, what do we find?' A few poor verses, 'a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through', and nothing more. 'He died with the rashness of a volunteer, after having lived to write with the sang... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 sider
...heroes. - In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through.63 In his Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1820), moreover,... | |
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