238 The clouds beneath him seem'd so dun; And made him higher soar and shriek Thus was Corinth lost and won!" [The "Siege of Corinth," though written, perhaps, with too visible an effort, and not very well harmonised in all its parts, cannot but be regarded as a magnificent composition. There is less misanthropy in it than in any of the rest; and the interest is made up of alternate representations of soft and solemn scenes and emotions, and of These opposite pictures are, perthe tumult, and terrors, and intoxication of war. haps, too violently contrasted, and, in some parts, too harshly coloured; but they are in general exquisitely designed, and executed with the utmost spirit and energy.— JEFFREY.] |