evangel was old when Nineveh reared her greatness to the sky.
These gallant words which seem so novel to those that speak them were said in accents scarcely changed a
hundred times before. The pendulum swings backwards and forwards. The circle is ever travelled anew.
Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era in which he had his place into one which is strange
to him
and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy. Who now
for example
thinks of George Crabbe? He was a famous poet in his day
and the world recognised his genius
with a unanimity which the greater complexity of modern life has rendered infrequent. He had learnt his craft
at the school of Alexander Pope
and he wrote moral stories in rhymed couplets. Then came the French
Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
and the poets sang new songs. Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral
stories in rhymed couplets. I think he must have read the verse of these young men who were making so great
a stir in the world
and I fancy he found it poor stuff. Of course
much of it was. But the odes of Keats and of
Wordsworth
a poem or twoyilai:
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