 He is indeed a careless writer for the most part ; but where shall we find in any of those authors who finish their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring strokes of fancy, those numbers so hazardously ventured upon and so...  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 3841804Full view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1858
...in Cowper's language, " where shall we find in any of those authors who finish their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring...sparingly laid on and yet with such a beautiful effect ?" Cowper could not help regretting that Churchill had died so soon, and the regret was both a kind... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1858 - 854 pages
...in Cowper's language, " where shall we find in any of those authors who finish their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on and ret with such a beautiful effect ?" Cowper could not help regretting that Churchill had died so soon,... | |
 | John Forster - Great Britain - 1858 - 488 pages
...of fancy ; its numbers so exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring strokes of fane;, : those numbers so hazardously ventured upon and so...compressed and yet so clear, and the colouring so 1 sparingly laid on and yet with : such a beautiful effect ? In short, it is not his least praise that... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1858 - 740 pages
...Talk. tured upon and so happily 'finished, the matter so compressed, and yet so clear, and the coloring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short, il is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those faults as a writer which he lays to the... | |
 | John Forster - Great Britain - 1858 - 486 pages
...hazardously ventured upon, and so happily finished; its " matter so compressed, and yet so clear ; its colouring so " sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect." Largely would we have added, if possible, to the quotations already given from this poem, and it is... | |
 | 1860 - 784 pages
...for the most part, but where shall we rind, in any of those authors who finish their works with the designedly giving some offence to a shabby fellow...a character, struck him on one cheek, and bade him coloring so sparingly laid on and yet with such a beautiful etl'ect ? In short, it. is not his least... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 818 pages
...for the most part ; but where shall we find in any of those authors, who finish their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring...fancy, those numbers so hazardously ventured upon, and to happily finished, the matter so compressed and yet so clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 330 pages
...for the most part ; but where shall we find in any of those authors who finished their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring...sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? . . . I cannot help regretting that he died so soon. Those words of Virgil, upon the immature death... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1874 - 346 pages
...for the most part ; but where shall we find in any of those authors who finished their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring...sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? . . . I cannot help regretting that he died so soon. Those words of Virgil, upon the immature death... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 340 pages
...for the most part; but where shall we find in any of those authors who finished their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring...sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect? ... I cannot help regretting that he died so soon. Those words of Virgil, upon the immature death of... | |
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