 ... both writers of Odes ? it is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the counterpart of the other. The first has but little invention, very poetical choice of expression, and a good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon...  The Poems of William Collins - 第 xvi 頁William Collins 著 - 1907 - 90 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 頁
...good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not. Adieu! dear Sir, I am very sincerely yours, TG I was thirty years old yesterday. What is o'clock by... | |
 | 1821 - 724 頁
...good ear. The second a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." So then one of the few copies of the odes, descriptive and allegorical, which had got abroad before... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 頁
...good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." — Mitford's Gray, vol. ii. p. 169, 4to. In June 1749 our poet published An Ode occasioned by the... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 頁
...good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." —Mitford's Gray, vol. ii. p. 169, 4to. In June 1749 our poet published An Ode occasioned by the death... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 330 頁
...good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not. Adieu ! dear Sir, I am very sincerely yours, TG I was thirty years old yesterday. What is o'clock by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 頁
...good ear: the second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique; a bad ear; a great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." — GRAY to Wharton, Dec. 27, 1746. How little did Gray foresee that Collins's name, as a poet, would... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 頁
...good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety "of words and ε ѝ g B ɀ X"1 1854") Agnew John Holmes" John H He should rather have called the ear of Collins uncertain than bad, for he has lines, stanzas, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 頁
...fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words VOL. xciv. NO. CLXXXVII. D and and images with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years but will not.' He should rather have called the ear of Collins uncertain than bad, for he has lines, stanzas, and... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 頁
...second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, and no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." arrival, his uncle died, and left his property to Collins and his sisters. The poet's legacy amounted... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 252 頁
...good ear. The second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." This last clause is an example of the vanity of prophesying. It is difficult to understand what Gray... | |
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