| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 pages
...[which last he began reading in 1815], were, of all the works with which he was familiar, those that took the deepest root in his mind, and had the strongest influence in the formation of his character." The translation from Faust appeared in the first number of the Liberal; both this and the Calderon... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 834 pages
...common business of life. They had little comparative success. Brown's four novels, Schiller's Robbers, and Goethe's Faust, were, of all the works with which...old English poets, excepting Shakspeare and Milton. Hej devotedly admired Wordsworth and Coleridge, and in a minor degree iSouthcy : these had great influence... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 510 pages
...common business of life. They had little comparative success. Brown's four novels, Schiller's Itobbers, and Goethe's Faust, were, of all the works with which...not remember that he greatly admired any of our old 410 MEMOIRS OF PERCY BYSSRE 8HELLKY. English poets, excepting Shakspeare and Milton. He] devotedly... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 494 pages
...be more strongly excited than by the perusal of Wielan<L\ Brown wrote two other novels, Jane Tailor and Philip Stanley, in which he abandoned this system,...familiar, those which took the deepest root in his mind^and had the strongest influence in the formation of his character. He_jsas__an, .._, _assidm}us.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Michael Rossetti - 1881 - 482 pages
...[which last he began reading in 1815], were, of all the works with which he was familiar, those that took the deepest root in his mind, and had the strongest influence in the formation of his character." The translation from Faint appeared in the first number of the Liberal ; both this and the Calderon... | |
| Shelley Society - Societies - 1886 - 184 pages
...[which last he began reading in 1815], were, of all the works with which he was familiar, those that took the deepest root in his mind, and had the strongest influence in the formation of his character." The translation from Faust appeared in the first number of the Liberal; both this and the Calderon... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1887 - 592 pages
...in romance, Charles Brockden Brown. " Brown's four novels," says Peacock, " Schiller's ' Robbers,' and Goethe's ' Faust,' were, of all the works with...was familiar, those which took the deepest root in Shelley's mind, and had the strongest influence in the formation of his character." But if Brown's... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1888 - 1044 pages
...miss. Edward Dowden, in his life of Shelley, tells us that Brown's novels, with Schiller's "Robbers" and Goethe's "Faust," "were — of all the works with...was familiar— those which took the deepest root in Shelley's mind, and had the strongest influence in the formation of his character." That high poet... | |
| Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...Dnwden says: 'Brown's four novels, Schiller's 'Robbers,' and Goethe's 'Faust' were — of all tlie works with which he was familiar— those which took the deepest root in Shelley's mind, and had the strongest influence in the formation of his character. AMONO the most important... | |
| Literature - 1888 - 892 pages
...Brown's novels, " Faust," and " The Robbers" were the books which took the deepest hold on Shelley's mind and had the strongest influence in the formation of his character, that the Encyclopaedia Britannica calls Brown the precursor and only American rival of Hawthorne, that... | |
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