Biographical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers Statesmen And Men of Letters Six
Biographical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers Statesmen And Men of Letters Six
Samuel L Samuel Lorenzo Knapp
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There were occasionally scintillations of a better taste ; but they illumined the darkness only for a moment and fell on nothing that would serve to kindle a flame. At this time however, the general character of English poetry was not much better than our own ; Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare and Milton are splendid exceptions ; others of some note in their day occasionally appeared, but the common metrical productions had very little in them worthy of the name of poetry, until after the expulsion... of the Stuarts. In that period of excitement in which men read and thought and began to under- 13 138 stand their rights ; in that period preceding the dawn of the American revolution, when poetry was brought in aid of prose and eloquence to warm the heart and enlighten the mind, the shackles of the muse were broken and she wandered at large, and sported in every form of unrestrained freedom. This liberty was favourable to genius, but it was long before a good taste could be found gaining ground.
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