 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1890 - 284 pages
...and the author were now at his starting-point, such a review of such a book is surely out of date. Praise or blame should be thoughtful, serious, careful,...with " a deep and painful subject on which he has no conviction to express." There are pulpits enough for all preachers in prose ; the business of verse-... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1901 - 66 pages
...and the author were now at his starting-point, such a review of such a book is surely out of date. Praise or blame should be thoughtful, serious, careful,...with " a deep and painful subject on which he has no conviction to express." There are pulpits enough for all preachers in prose; the business of verse-writing... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 266 pages
...it from the public, although it is now more than forty years since Mr. Swinburne wrote of him as ' one of the three or four poets now alive whose work,...always as noble in design as it is often faultless in result.'1 When these words were written, Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold and Rossetti were all living.... | |
 | Maurice Buxton Forman - 1909 - 252 pages
...one of the three or four poets now alive whose work, perfect or imperfect, is always as noble in 100 design as it is often faultless in result. The present...with " a deep and painful subject on which he has no conviction to express." There are pulpits enough for all preachers in prose ; the business of verse-writing... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1913 - 196 pages
...and the author were now at his starting-point, such a review of such a book is surely out of date. Praise or blame should be thoughtful, serious, careful,...with "a deep and painful subject on which he has no conviction to express." There are pulpits enough for all preachers in prose; the business of verse-writing... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - 1915 - 538 pages
...unappreciative review provoked Swinburne to a letter of vigorous protest, in the course of which he said : ' Mr. Meredith is one of the three or four poets now...noble in design as it is often faultless in result.' But after winning the suffrages of contemporary men of letters, Meredith had still to conquer the public.... | |
 | James Harold Edward Crees - 1918 - 266 pages
...the general." Swinburne, in his enthusiastic and just eulogy of Modern Love, describes Meredith as one of the three or four poets now alive whose work,...always as noble in design as it is often faultless in resolt. Robert Louis Stevenson declared that the sheer beauty of one stanza in Love in a Valley made... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 pages
...Spectator, and the criticism brought a remarkable letter of protest from Swinburne, in which he said: "Mr. Meredith is one of the three or four poets now...in design as it is often faultless in result." The first Mrs. Meredith died in 1860. The marriage was not a success, but his second marriage with a lady... | |
 | John Boynton Priestley - 1926 - 230 pages
...work that were by no means the least of his literary activities. " Mr. Meredith ", wrote Swinburne, " is one of the three or four poets now alive whose...noble in design as it is often faultless in result." Just as Tennyson had expressed his admiration of the previous volume, so Browning, who could recognise... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1908 - 624 pages
...to express his unqualified admiration for the work of Mr. Meredith, speaking of him as "one of tha three or four poets now alive whose work, perfect...noble in design as it is often faultless in result." Strong as these words are, and important as Mr. Swinburne's opinion was even then held to be, "Modern... | |
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Mr Meredith is one of the three or four poets now alive whose work, perfect or imperfect, is always as noble in design as it is often faultless in result. 
