 | George Brimley - Criticism - 1882 - 354 pages
...ministered to the enjoyments of both. ' Seldom, if ever,' says Coleridge in the Biographia Literaria, ' was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.' But poetry can never be counted on as a means of support ; and hitherto "Wordsworth had been almost... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 394 pages
...hands of a young man in Cambridge, who was charmed with them, and who declared years afterward that seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced than in these same Sketches. This young man was a poet himself, and about this time was writing Songs... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Criticism - 1883 - 302 pages
...Review for 1793, and concerns his first book, ' Descriptive Sketches.' Of this work Coleridge says : ' Seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced ;' yet this is how the critics of the time began an unprovoked hostility which may be said to have... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Criticism - 1883 - 302 pages
...book, ' Descriptive Sketches.' Of this work Coleridge says : ' Seldom, if ever, was the emer- J gence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced ;' yet this is hoac— J the critics of the time began an unprovoked hostility which may be said to... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1884 - 232 pages
...at Cambridge that he first met with these poems, of which he says in the Biographia Literaria that " seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced;" and the effect produced by this volume was steadily enhanced by further acquaintance both with the... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1884 - 228 pages
...at Cambridge that he first met with these poems, of which he says in the Biographia LUeraria. that " seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced;" and the effect produced by this volume was steadily enhanced by further acquaintance both with the... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...1794, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication, entitled Descriptive Sketches, and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced." Two years after, the two poets, then personally unknown to each other, were brought together at Nether... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Critics - 1887 - 188 pages
...admiration of Bowles was now in large part transferred to Wordsworth. " Seldom, if ever," says Coleridge, " was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced." This ardour of discipleship was to bear fruit in the future, but meantime another accident was to lead... | |
 | William Angus Knight - Literary Collections - 1889 - 450 pages
...met. became acquainted with Mr Wordsworth's first publication,* entitled Deseriptive Sketches, and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced." The earliest authentic notice of Coleridge's knowledge of Wordsworth occurs in the Cambridge Diary... | |
 | Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth - Poets, English - 1891 - 266 pages
...Cambridge," says ST Coleridge, " I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's ' Descriptive Sketches/ and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced." Another literary effort of this time was a letter, not published during his lifetime, to the then Bishop... | |
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During the last year of my residence at Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches"; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently... 
