 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 344 sidor
...memory of Peele as the oldest genuine dramatic poet of our language. His " David and Bethsabe" is the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be...character have no inconsiderable mixture of solid veracity and ideal beauty. There is no such sweetness of versification and imagery to be found in our blank... | |
 | 1821 - 400 sidor
...a degree below mediocrity. On the other hand, Mr. Campbell describes his David and Bethsabe as the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be traced in our dramatic poetry, and he quotes the same passage from it, in terms of praise, as Mr. Charles Lamb has given in his dramatic... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 sidor
...a degree below mediocrity. On the other hand, Mr. Campbell describes his David and Bethsabe as the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be traced in our dramatic poetry, and he quotes the same passage from it, in terms of praise, as Mr. Charles Lamb has given in his dramatic... | |
 | 1821 - 398 sidor
...a degree below mediocrity. On the other hand, Mr. Campbell describes his David and Bethsabe as the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be traced in our dramatic poetry, and / he quotes the same passage from it, in terms of praise, as Mr. Charles j Lamb has given in his... | |
 | 1828
...memory of Peele as the oldest genuine dramatic poet of our language. His David and Bethsabe is the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be...character have no inconsiderable mixture of solid veracity and ideal beauty. There is no such sweetness of versification and imagery to be found in our blank... | |
 | George Peele - 1829 - 338 sidor
...il'i.it ,i!i '1-i'iLi/., est genuine dramatic poet of our language. His David and feethsabe is the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be...Have no inconsiderable mixture of solid veracity. and ideal beauty, "there is no such sweetness of versification and imagery to be found in our blank... | |
 | William Pickering - 1834 - 426 sidor
...the memory of Peeleasthe oldest genuine dramatic poet of our language. His David and Bethsabe is the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be...character have no inconsiderable mixture of solid veracity and ideal beauty. There is no such sweetness of versification and imagery to be found in our blank... | |
 | 1885 - 614 sidor
...above Greene. Campbell, in an often-quoted passage, pronounces his David and Bethasabe to be the ' earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be traced in our dramatic literature,' and goes on to speak of the ' solid veracity ' and ' ideal beauty ' of his characters.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 sidor
...memory of Peele as the oldest genuine dramatic poet of our language. His " l):i\id and Bethsabe" is the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be traced in our dramatic poetry. Hie fancy is rich and his feeling tender, and his conceptions of dramatic character have no inconsiderable... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 sidor
...published in 1599, two or three years after the author's death. This play Mr. Campbell has called "the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be traced in our dramatic poetry ;" and he adds, ' ' there is no such sweetness of versification and imagery to be found in our blank... | |
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His David and Bethsabe is the earliest fountain of pathos and harmony that can be traced in our dramatic poetry. His fancy is rich, and his feeling tender ; and his conceptions of dramatic character have no inconsiderable mixture of solid veracity and... 
