 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 790 pages
...uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. Why he will sometimes choose to crawl upon all fours, when God has given him so noble a countenance to lift...time and meditation have stamped his brow withal. " 1 am obliged to conclude hastily, having long letters to write — God wot upon very different subjects.... | |
 | Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. Why he will sometimes choose to crawl upon all fours, when God has given him so noble a countenance to lift...quarrelling (as you tell me) with the wrinkles which lime and meditation have stamped his brow withal. , . . . " I am obliged to conclude hastily, having... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. Why he will sometimes choose to crawl upon all fours, when God has given him so noble a countenance to lift...his quarrelling (as you tell me) with the wrinkles L which lime and meditation have stamped his brow withal. " I am obliged to conclude hastily, having... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 608 pages
...a robust and powerful man putting himself in leading-strings. Scott himself expresses his wonder, " why he will sometimes choose to crawl upon all-fours,...given him so noble a countenance to lift to heaven." * For this wilful degradation of genius we have no sympathy, nor could we ever find an excuse. Whether... | |
 | James Moncreiff (1st baron.) - 1878 - 714 pages
...a robust and powerful man putting himself in leading-strings. Scott himself expresses his wonder, " why he will sometimes choose to crawl upon all-fours,...given him so noble a countenance to lift to heaven." * For this wilful degradation of genius we have no sympathy, nor could we ever find an excuse. Whether... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 pages
...admitted that it is far from being a lofty flight of genius. Sir Walter Scott wonders ' why Wordsworth will sometimes choose to crawl upon all-fours, when...given him so noble a countenance to lift to heaven.' Sir Walter, it need scarcely be added, had, in general, an exalted opinion of ' the amiable bard of... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English essays - 1891 - 360 pages
...it." Sir Walter Scott openly lamented that Wordsworth should exhibit himself "crawling on all fours, when God has given him so noble a countenance to lift to heaven." Byron mocked aloud, and, worse than all, the young men from whom so much had been expected, les jeunes... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 pages
...admitted that it is far from being a lofty flight of genius Sir Walter , Scott wonders ' why Wordsworth will sometimes ^ choose to crawl upon all-fours, when...given him so noble a countenance to lift to heaven.' Sir Walter, it need scarcely be added, had, in general, an exalted opinion of ' the amiable bard of... | |
 | Margaret Ball - Literary Criticism - 1907 - 214 pages
...uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. Why he will sometimes choose to crawl upon all fours, when God has given him so noble a countenance to lift...wrinkles which time and meditation have stamped his brow withal."5 These remarks upon Wordsworth and Coleridge touch merely the fringe of the subject, and indeed... | |
 | David Watson Rannie - English literature - 1907 - 422 pages
...uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius," he " differed from him in very many points of taste." "Why he will sometimes choose to crawl upon all-fours,...little able to account for, as for his quarrelling . . . with the wrinkles which time and meditation have stamped his brow withal." So Scott wrote when... | |
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I am happy my effigy is to go with that of Wordsworth,* for (differing from him in very many points of taste) I do not know a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. Why he will sometimes choose to crawl upon all fours,... 
