...facts detailed, than by the quantity of letter-press. A work of so. much practical importance required the historian's severe castigation. Much of the labour,...to have spared no pains to render his work what he, doabtless, designed it to be, and ' which, in truth, it is, a fair epitome of what is known relative...

...facts detailed, than by the quantity of letter-press. A work of so much practical importance required the historian's severe castigation. Much of the labour,...consumed in ascertaining a date, or verifying a fact. Mr. Partingtori appears to have spared no pains to render his work what he, doubtless, designed it to be,...

...Mr. Swinburne has given the stanza to the readers of the Fortnightly. We are told on good authority, that " there is a pleasure in poetic pains, which only poets know.• So far as we may judge from internal evidence, we should say these lines have cost Mr. Swinburne very...

...eyes for any but Leontes. You may judge of the pleasure it was to play to audiences of this kind. As " there is a pleasure in poetic pains, which only poets know," so there is a pleasure in the actor's pains, which only actors know, who have to deal with the " high...

...resolving it), oxymoronically, by resorting to ideas such as 'instructive ease', 149 and suggesting that 'There is a pleasure in poetic pains/ Which only poets know'. 150 The duplicity of the sofa affords Austen the most wicked and disturbing joke in Mansfield Park:...

...most popular. The text itself is simple and readily yields its meaning to the diligent student. But as there is a "pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know," so in this matchless piece of poetic effort, there are depths of thought and heights of moral excellence...