এই পাতাটির মুদ্রণ সংশোধন করা প্রয়োজন।
Of the fashionable verse he disapproved. Poems that were raised ‘from the heat of youth, * * * like that which flows at waste from the pen of the amourist,’ * * * were in his eyes treachery to the poet’s high vocation.
“Poetical powers ‘are the gift of God * * * and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections in right tone; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God’s almightiness and what He works.’ ’’
Pattison
