 MR. WORDSWORTH'S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he lived in any other period of the world, he would never have been heard of. As it is, he has some difficulty to contend with the hebetude of his intellect, and the meanness of...  The Philomathic journal - Page 204by Philomathic institution - 1826Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1825 - 420 pages
...political inconsistency alone excepted ! MR. WORDSWORTH. MR. WORDSWORTH. MR. WORDSWOIITH'S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he...of his intellect, and the meanness of his subject. Withhim "lowliness isyoung ambition's ladder:" but he finds it a toil to climb in this way the steep... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 342 pages
...Wordsworth is proclaimed by Wilson as the high-priest of nature; and Hazlitt asserts that if Wordsworth had lived in any other period of the world, he would never have been heard of. Taylor, speaking of Wordsworth's " Excursion," says, that in a poem upon a large scale, " some parts... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 458 pages
...respectable — his political inconsistency alone excepted ! MR. WORDSWORTH '; MR. WORDSWORTH'S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he...him 'lowliness is young ambition's ladder' : but he f1nds it a toil to climb in this way the steep of Fame. His homely Muse can hardly raise her wing from... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 468 pages
...respectable — his political inconsistency alone excepted ! MR. WORDSWORTH MR.^WOJJQSWORTH'S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he lived m any other period of the world, he wouET never have been heard of. As it is, he has some difficulty... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 552 pages
...it is not to be found in Burke, it is to be found nowhere. MR. WORDSWORTH MR. WORDSWORTH'S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he..." but he finds it a toil to climb in this way the steep,of Fame. His homely Muse can hardly raise her wing from the ground, nor spread her hidden glories... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 524 pages
...it is not to be found in Burke, it is to be found nowhere. MR. WORDSWORTH MR. WORDSWORTH'S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he...difficulty to contend with the hebetude of his intellect, and_the jneanness of his subject. With him " lowliness is young ambition's ladder ; " but he finds... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 406 pages
...inconsistency alone excepted ! MR. WORDSWORTH M*. WORDSWORTH'S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit a the Age. Had he lived in any other period of the world, he wo never have been heard of. As it is, he has some difficulty to contenc with the hebetude of his intellect,... | |
 | Jules David Law - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 282 pages
...essay's first paragraph, Hazlitt sums up the paradox of Wordsworth's career in an ironic aphorism: "With him 'lowliness is young ambition's ladder':...it a toil to climb in this way the steep of fame." Reconciling depths and heights will thus be Wordsworth's challenge, and a few sentences later Hazlitt... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...the devil can throw at a man. 4492 The Spirit of the Age Mr Wordsworth's genius is a pure emanatlon of the Spirit of the Age. Had he lived in any other...period of the world, he would never have been heard of. 4493 Table Talk You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford... | |
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