...the ingenuous boast, " That not in fancy's maze he wandered long, But atoop'd to truth, and moralized his song." He should have written " rose to truth."...hands except Milton's and Dante's, and even Dante's Eowers are involved in his delineation of human passions, though i supernatural circumstances. What...

...the ingenuous boast, That not in Fancy's maze he wanier'd long, But stooped to Truth, and moraliz'd his song. He should have written ' rose to truth.'...human hands except Milton's and Dante's, and even Dante'* powers are involved in his delineation of human passions, though in supernatural circumstances....

...insensibly led your Lordship to calumniate Virgil, Milton, Cowper, and Poetry, I must transcribe: " In my mind, the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry,...highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth." — " In my mind, the ethical is the highest of all poetry, because it does that in verse* which the...

...insensibly led your Lordship to calumniate Virgil, Milton, Cowper, and Poetry, I must transcribe : " In my mind, the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry,...highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth." — « In my mind, the ethical is the highest of all poetry, because it does that in. verse, which...

...arbitrarily and sophistically. That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stooped to Truth, and moraliz'd his song. He should have written ' rose to truth.' In my mind the highest *»f all poetry is ethical poetry, as the highest of aH earthly objects must be moral truth. Religion...

...the ingenuous boast, " That not in fancy's maze he wandered long, But stoop'd to truth, and moralized his song." He should have written " rose to truth."...earthly objects must be moral truth. Religion does notmake a part of my subject ; it is something beyond human powers, and has failed in all human hands...

...the ingenuous boast, " That not in fancy's maze he wandered long, But atoop'd to truth, and moralized his song." He should have written " rose to truth."...highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth. Keligion does not make a part of my subject ; it is something beyond human powers, and has failed in...

...LORD OXFORD ! — It is in vain , that this Critic attempts to dispute Lord Byron's position , that « the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry, as the highest of all eaithly objects must be moral truth (i). This position stands on a rock : perhaps Lord B.'s illustrations...

...ingenuous boast, • Thai not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, Rut stoop'd to truth, aml moralized In • song.» He should have written « rose to truth. »...ethical poetry, as the highest of all earthly objects musl be moral truth. Religion does not make a part of my subject; it is something beyond human powers,...

...species, against our fastidious editor. In his very able reply to Bowles, concerning Pope, he says : — "In my mind the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry,...highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth. If ethics made a philosopher (Socrates,) the first of men, and have not been disdained as an adjunct...