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" 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 ... - الصفحة 219
بواسطة Horace Walpole - 1806
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SEVERAL HANDS - 1758 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...heroes.—In fuH ' of all other talents we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, » paftoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love * cannot now wade through ; and fome abfurd attempts to fetter * EngliQi verfe in Roman chains ; a proof that this applauded ' Author...

A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with Lists of Their ...

Horace Walpole - 1759 - عدد الصفحات: 288
...abfurd attempts to fetter Englifh verfe in Roman chains ; a proof that this applauded author underftood little of the genius of his own language. The few of his letters extant are poor matters ; one * to a fteward of his father, an inftance of unwarrantable violence. By far...

A new and general biographical dictionary, المجلد 10

New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...of heroes. In full of all other talents we have " a tedious, lamentable pedantic, paftoral "romance, which " the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade " through ; and fome abfurd attempts to fetter Englifli verfe " in Roman chains : a proof, that this applauded author...

Picturesque Views on the River Medway: From the Nore to the Vicinity of Its ...

Samuel Ireland - 1793 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...obferves, " in full " of all other talents we have a tedious, " lamentable, pedantic, paftoral romance, " which the patience of a young virgin in " love cannot now wade through." NOTWITHSTANDING there may be fome truth in this remark, yet with due refpeft to the difcernment of...

An Essay on Design in Gardening: First Published in MDCCLXVIII : Now Greatly ...

George Mason - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...ing order in confufion."*— Have I quoted that "tedious, lamentable, pedantic, paf" toral romance, which the patience of a " young virgin in love cannot now wade '•* through ?"-(- Such is the character impofed upon it by an eminent modern. Yet (I believe) many readers of Arcadia...

A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

1798 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...abfurd attempts to fetter Englifh verfe in Roman chains: a proof that this applauded author underflood little of the genius of his own language. The few of his letters extant are poor matters : one to a fteward of his father, an inftance of unwarrantable violence By far the...

General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., المجلد 9

John Aikin - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 662
...unfavourable to the fame of Sidney. He terms it " a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through." But Dr. Zouch, the late biographer of Sir Philip, while he acknowledges that the changes in taste and...

Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, المجلد 3

Englishmen - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 274
...thoroughly depraved. Horace Walpole has indeed called it a " lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through ;" but we apprehend that his censure will be heeded only by the few who are ignorant that Horace Walpole...

Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth ..., المجلد 2

Henry Hallam - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...those sons of Anak,) says of the Arcadia, that it is " a tedious lamentable pedantic pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through." We may doubt whether Walpole could altogether estimate the patience of a reader so extremely unlike...

The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, المجلد 2

1845 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...overstrained. Horace Walpole calls the Arcadia, " a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through;" and Hazlitt, perhaps more honest, confesses that he cannot acquire a taste for it. As far as Walpole's...




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