 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetick, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as...fifty lines, and am surprised to find the structure ofthat complicated stanza so little troublesome. I was always fond of it ; for I think it the most... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetick, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as...strikes me ; for, if I mistake not, the manner, which 1 have adopted, admits equally of all these kinds of composition. I have written one hundred and fifty... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 408 pages
...publication. " Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll...if I mistake not, the manner which I have adopted adVOL. i. H mits equally of all these kinds of composition. I liave written one hundred and fifty lines,... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 408 pages
...and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droU or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or...if I mistake not, the manner which I have adopted adVOL. I. H N mits equally of all these kinds of composition. I have written one hundred and fifty... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...plan. " Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I proposed to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll...or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour stiikesme ; for, if I mistake not, the manner which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...observation : " Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll...the humour strikes me ; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition/'* — Strengthened in... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...observation : ' Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanea of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll...the humour strikes me ; for, if* I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition*.' Strengthened in my... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 334 pages
...observation : " Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll...the humour strikes me ; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition/'* — Strengthened in... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 322 pages
...observation : " Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, ten,r der or satirical, as the humour strikes me ; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 250 pages
...observation : " Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll...the humour strikes me ; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition*." — Strengthened in... | |
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Not long ago, I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour strikes me; for, if I mistake not,... 
