The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 36
... equally agreed , hat See particularly the life of Dryden , where he praises at ex- cellent versifier for knowing how to vary his pauses an adjust his accents ; " and observes , that as the essence of vere is re- gularity , " so " its ...
... equally agreed , hat See particularly the life of Dryden , where he praises at ex- cellent versifier for knowing how to vary his pauses an adjust his accents ; " and observes , that as the essence of vere is re- gularity , " so " its ...
Page 48
... equally denied admittance to Apollo's dinner table , either from ineligibility to his greater honours , or inability to sustain the strength of his wine , are , it must be confessed , of very unequal merits . Mr. Montgomery is perhaps ...
... equally denied admittance to Apollo's dinner table , either from ineligibility to his greater honours , or inability to sustain the strength of his wine , are , it must be confessed , of very unequal merits . Mr. Montgomery is perhaps ...
Page 68
... equally recognise , and such as our own feelings would utter , were they as eloquent as the poet's . The choice of this style is the more to be regretted in Mr. Camp- hell , because his genius evidently points to the most attractive ...
... equally recognise , and such as our own feelings would utter , were they as eloquent as the poet's . The choice of this style is the more to be regretted in Mr. Camp- hell , because his genius evidently points to the most attractive ...
Page 84
... equally artless . I pass over the contingent parts of the Preface , though touching out , as they go , some beautiful ideas respecting poets and poetry in general , both because I have neither time nor room to consider them 84.
... equally artless . I pass over the contingent parts of the Preface , though touching out , as they go , some beautiful ideas respecting poets and poetry in general , both because I have neither time nor room to consider them 84.
Page 96
... equally natural , is not equally pleasing . Who are to be the judges , then , between him and his faults ? Those , I think , who , delighted with his nature , and happy to see and to allow that he has merits of his own superior to his ...
... equally natural , is not equally pleasing . Who are to be the judges , then , between him and his faults ? Those , I think , who , delighted with his nature , and happy to see and to allow that he has merits of his own superior to his ...
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