 Austin or Guy earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or an allegory, he writes with facility. His transitions were rapid from works of the most serious and laborious kind to sallies of levity and pieces of popular entertainment....  History, gazetteer, and directory, of Suffolk - Page 167by William White - 1855Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 444 pages
...ease in every " mode of composition. His hymns, and his bal" lads, have the same degree of merit : and whether " his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero ; of " St. Austin, or Guy earl of Warwick ; ludicrous " or legendary ; religious or romantic ; a history... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 464 pages
...ease in every " mode of composition. His hymns and his bal" lads have the same degree of merit: and whether *' his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of " Saint Austin or Guy Earl of Warwick, ludicrous " or legendary, religious or romantic, a history... | |
 | Longman (Firm), Thomas Park - 1815 - 481 pages
...equal ease in every mode of composition. His hymns and his ballads have the same degree of merit : and whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of saint Austin or Guy earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or... | |
 | Acton Frederick Griffiths - 1815 - 628 pages
...equal ease in every mode of composition. His hymns and his ballads have the same degree of merit : and whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of saint Austin or Guy earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or... | |
 | Charles O'Conor - 1818 - 538 pages
...clothed with that perspicuity in which English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader; that to enumerate his various pieces, would be to...moves with equal ease in every mode of composition. His muse was of universal access; he was not only the Poet of his Monastery of Bury, but of the world... | |
 | James Ford - 1818 - 430 pages
...equal case in every mode of composition. His hymns and his ballads have the same degree of merit : and whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of St. Austin or Guy Earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or an... | |
 | J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 430 pages
...equal ease in every mode of composition. His hymns and his ballads have the same degree of merit ; and whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of St. Austin or Guy of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, a history or an allegory, he writes with ease... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 600 pages
...ease in every mode of composition. His hymns, and his ballads, have the same degree of merit : and whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of saint Austin or Guy earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or... | |
 | William White - 1844 - 770 pages
...that to enumerate his various pieces, would be to give a catalogue of a little library ; that пи poet seems to have possessed greater versatility of...every mode of composition. He was not only the poet of his monastery of Bury, but of the world at large. If a disguising was intended by the company of Goldsmiths,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1844 - 252 pages
...equal ease in every mode of composition. His hymns and Ids ballads have the same degree of merit : and whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of Saint Austin or Guy Earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or... | |
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