The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 23
... style , Look more like the morbid abstractions of bile ? There is one of you here - ' twas of him that I spoke- Who , instead of becoming a byword and joke , Should have brought back our fine old pre - eminent 4 * 23.
... style , Look more like the morbid abstractions of bile ? There is one of you here - ' twas of him that I spoke- Who , instead of becoming a byword and joke , Should have brought back our fine old pre - eminent 4 * 23.
Page 35
... become inti- mate with his great predecessors , and with the principles of musical beauty in general . Johnson , it is true , objects to those who judge of Pope's versification " by principles rather than percep- tion , " treating the ...
... become inti- mate with his great predecessors , and with the principles of musical beauty in general . Johnson , it is true , objects to those who judge of Pope's versification " by principles rather than percep- tion , " treating the ...
Page 49
... become aware of the defects of his versification , and attempted the other day to give his harp a higher and more various strain in the fragment upon Columbus ; but the strings appear to have been in danger of snapping . It was ...
... become aware of the defects of his versification , and attempted the other day to give his harp a higher and more various strain in the fragment upon Columbus ; but the strings appear to have been in danger of snapping . It was ...
Page 57
... become either eccentric pretenders , or dang- lers after inferior beauty , or repeaters , at best , of her language at second hand . We must study where Shakspeare studied - in the fields , in the heavens - in the heart and fortunes of ...
... become either eccentric pretenders , or dang- lers after inferior beauty , or repeaters , at best , of her language at second hand . We must study where Shakspeare studied - in the fields , in the heavens - in the heart and fortunes of ...
Page 61
... become lame and prosaical . The only approach that he ever made to the poetical character was in some pleasing and even pathetic lines in the notes to his Mæviad , beginning I wish I was where Anna lies ; - but such lines coming in such ...
... become lame and prosaical . The only approach that he ever made to the poetical character was in some pleasing and even pathetic lines in the notes to his Mæviad , beginning I wish I was where Anna lies ; - but such lines coming in such ...
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