 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...for 8 the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hipocrene, were all an abomination to him. In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming " Harp ?... | |
 | England - 1818 - 764 pages
...the loftiest and wildest odes, hod a logic of its own as severe as that of science. • • • * * Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations...can almost hear him now exclaiming, • Harp .* Harp 9 Lyrct Pen and Ink ! Boy you mean ! Mute ! bay ! Mute ! your Nurte't daughter you mean t B Pierian... | |
 | 1818 - 782 pages
...that of the loftiest and wildest odes, had a logic of its own as severe as that of science. * * * * * Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations...* Harp ? Lyre ? Pen and Ink ! Boy you mean ! Muse ! lx)yf Muse ! your Nurse's daughter you mean ! B Pierian Spring ! O Aye ! the cloister Pump /'••••... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - London (England) - 1821 - 348 pages
...for the last three years of our school education) he shewed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...almost hear him now exclaiming, — Harp ? Harp ? Lyre 9 Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse! yournurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring 9 Oh... | |
 | 1821 - 526 pages
...We never observe these errors without remembering the remarks of the instructor of Mr. Coleridge, " Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations,...mean ! Muse, boy, muse ? — Your nurse's daughter, jou mean ! Pierian spring ? — O, aye ; the cloister pump, I presume !" It is, however, but just to... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...We never observe these errors without remembering the remarks of the instructor of Mr. Coleridge, " Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations,...Lyre ?—Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy, muse ? —Yonr nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring ?—O, aye; the cloister pump, I presume !" It... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1820 - 474 pages
...for the last three years of our school education) he shewed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer 172 THF, EARLY LIFK OK A POUT. words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...for the last three years of our school education) be showed no mercy to phrase, image, or metaphor, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations — Pegasus, I'uruassus and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him. In fancy, 1 can almost bear him now exclaiming—... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 pages
...and ' Pierian spring,' in his verses." " What was that?" " Why the pedagogue used to stop him thus, ' Harp, harp, lyre ? pen and ink, boy, you mean! — Muse, boy, muse? Your Muse's daughter, you mean ! — Pierian spring ? oh, ay ! the cloister pump, I suppose !" " An excellent... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...for the last three years of our school education, he shewed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene, were all an abomination to him." — " There... | |
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In our own English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in... 
