 Tam o' Shanter itself, which enjoys so high a favour, does not appear to us, at all decisively, to come under this last category. It is not so much a poem, as a piece of sparkling rhetoric ; the heart and body of the story still lies hard and dead. He...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 291by Thomas Carlyle - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...rhymed eloquence, rhymed pathos, rhymed sense ; yet seldom essentially melodious, aerial, poetical. Tarn o' Shanter itself, which enjoys so high a favour,...the story still lies hard and dead. He has not gone back, much less carried us back, into that dark, earnest, wondering age, when the tradition was believed,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...seldom essentially melodious, aerial, poetical. Tarn o' Shanter itself, which enjoys so high a favor, does not appear to us, at all decisively, to come...the story still lies hard and dead. He has not gone back, much less carried us back, into that dark, earnest, wondering age, when the tradition was believed,... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...eloquence, rhymed pathos, rhymed sense ; yet seldom essentially melodious, aerial, poetical. Turn o' Shunttr itself, which enjoys so high a favour, does not appear...the story still lies hard and dead. He has not gone back, much less carried us back, into that dark, earnest wondering age, when the tradition was believed,... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 pages
...eloquence, rhymed pathos, rhymed sense; yet seldom essentially melodious, aerial, poetical. Tarn o' Shunter itself, which enjoys so high a favour, does not appear...sparkling rhetoric; the heart and body of the story st\\\ \\e«, \y&x\ wA ^RS&Hehas not gone back, much less carried us back, into that dark, earnest,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1854 - 98 pages
...rhymed eloquence, rhymed pathos, rhymed sense; yet seldom essentially melodious, aerial, poetical. Tarn o' Shanter itself, which enjoys so high a favour,...the story still lies hard and dead. He has not gone back, much less carried us back, into that dark, earnest, wondering age, when the tradition was believed,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 216 pages
...seldom essentially melodious, aerial, poetical. Tarn (fShanter itself, which enjoys so high a favor, does not appear to us, at all decisively, to come...the story still lies hard and dead. He has not gone back, much less carried us back, into that dark, earnest wondering age, when the tradition was believed,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 494 pages
...eloquence, rhymed pathos, rhymed sense ; yet seldom essentially melodious, aerial, poetical. Tarn o 1 Shanter itself, which enjoys so high a favour, does...decisively, to come under this last category. It is net so much a poem, as a piece of ^sparkling rhetoric ; the heart and body of the story still lies... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 pages
...eloquence, rhymed pathos, rhymed sense; yet seldom essentially melodious, aerial, poetical. Tarn oS/ianter itself, which enjoys so high a favour, does not appear...the story still lies hard and dead. He has not gone back, much less carried us back, into that dark, earnest, wondering age, when the tradition was believed,... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1879 - 234 pages
...written " all but quite as well by a man, who, in place of genius, had only possessed talent; that it is not so much a poem, as a piece of sparkling rhetoric; the heart of the story still lies hard and dead." On the other hand, Sir Walter Scott has recorded this verdict:... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1879 - 234 pages
...written " all but quite as well by a man, who, in place of genius, had only possessed talent; that it is not so much a poem, as a piece of sparkling rhetoric; the heart of the story still lies hard and dead." On the other hand, Sir Walter Scott has recorded this verdict:... | |
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