 The reading public of Edinburgh do not criticise Mr Wordsworth; they think him below their criticism; they know nothing about what he has done, or what he is likely to do. They think him a mere old sequestered hermit, eaten up with vanity and affectation,...  Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk - Page 143by John Gibson Lockhart - 1819Full view - About this book
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 388 pages
...Mr Wordsworth ; they think him below their criticism ; they know nothing about what he has done, or what he is likely to do. They think him a mere old...produced. They never heard of Ruth, or Michael, or the Brothers, or Hart- Leap Well, or the Recollections of Infancy, or the Sonnets to Buonaparte. They... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 492 pages
...Edinburgh to whom the name of my friend Charles Lamb would convey any distinct or definite idea. . . . They do not know even the names of some of the finest...produced. They never heard of Ruth, or Michael, or The Brothers, or Hartleap Well, or the Recollections of Infancy, or the Sonnets to Buonaparte. They... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1924 - 482 pages
...Edinburgh to whom the name of my friend Charles Lamb would convey any distinct or definite idea. . . . They do not know even the names of some of the finest...produced. They never heard of Ruth, or Michael, or The Brothers, or Hartleap Well, or the Recollections of Infancy, or the Sonnets to Buonaparte. They... | |
 | Fanny Anne Burney Wood, Mrs. Fanny Anne Burney Wood - Belgium - 1926 - 428 pages
...they know nothing about what he has done. . . . They think him a mere old sequestered hermit who is eaten up with vanity and affectation, who publishes...produced. They never heard of Ruth or Michael, or the Brothers, or Hart-leap Well, or the Recollections of Infancy, or the Sonnets to Buonaparte. They... | |
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