How To Use Swinburne In A Sentence
- In Swinburne's work as a whole many adjectives are used as nouns and many nouns as adjectives.
- Poe was the juiciest rhymer of the nineteenth century—before Swinburne, that is—but Mallarmé in his wisdom translated Poe into exquisitely rhymeless French prose, and then Mallarmé published his reverent prose translations in a book, with line drawings by Manet. THE ANTHOLOGIST
- Hankey can be found too in various biographies of Swinburne, with whom, naturally, he was acquainted.
- Childe Harold" or "Don Juan," despite Swinburne's accusation of botchery, they would see that he really had very little time to be wicked. Without Prejudice
- And that motif links the poem with the overall symbolism of Swinburne's world where the sea is always considered a last refuge after pain.
- Twice he closed the book on forefinger to look at the name of the author. Swinburne!
- A few years before this, Swinburne's friend, the redoubtable equestrienne Adah Mencken, had complained to 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
- Mr. Swinburne to those of Mr. Patmore, in which stateliness of contemplation and a peculiar austerity of tenderness find their expression in odes of iambic cadence, the melody of which depends, not in their headlong torrent of sound, but in the cunning variation of catalectic pause. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
- For instance, when Swinburne read her poetry he exclaimed: “I have always thought that nothing more glorious in poetry has ever been written”, and went on to say of her New Year Hymn that it was touched as with the fire and bathed as in the light of sunbeams, tuned as to chords and cadences of refluent sea-music beyond reach of harp and organ, large echoes of the serene and sonorous tides of heaven The Common Reader, Second Series
- To Swinburne, as he says, the distinction between books and life is but a 'dullard's distinction,' and it may justly be said of him that it is with an equal instinct and an equal enthusiasm that he is drawn to whatever in nature, in men, in books, or in ideas is great, noble, and heroic. Figures of Several Centuries
