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... original , man ; study more , scribble less ; Nor mistake present favour for lasting success ; And remember , if laurels are what you would find , The crown of all triumph is freedom of mind . " ( 11 ) " And here , " cried Apollo , " is ...
... original , man ; study more , scribble less ; Nor mistake present favour for lasting success ; And remember , if laurels are what you would find , The crown of all triumph is freedom of mind . " ( 11 ) " And here , " cried Apollo , " is ...
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... original freshness , than when he had his style to himself . ( 3 ) But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses half up and half down , & c . The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying ...
... original freshness , than when he had his style to himself . ( 3 ) But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses half up and half down , & c . The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying ...
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... original poet . I do not say he would have been equal to great works ; for a translator , to keep any thing like a pace with his original , should have at least a portion of his original spirit ; but as Mr. Hayley is not destitute of ...
... original poet . I do not say he would have been equal to great works ; for a translator , to keep any thing like a pace with his original , should have at least a portion of his original spirit ; but as Mr. Hayley is not destitute of ...
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... original , appears to me to be Fairfax's Tasso . I do not say that it is a perfect one , or that it is not sometimes straitened for want of room , and some- times clouded with the obscurities of its age ; but Fairfax seems to go along ...
... original , appears to me to be Fairfax's Tasso . I do not say that it is a perfect one , or that it is not sometimes straitened for want of room , and some- times clouded with the obscurities of its age ; but Fairfax seems to go along ...
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... original , sometimes , as may be supposed , with no good to his author , yet sometimes even with improve- ment , and the line has always something poetical in it , though its taste may not be the true one . In the third book , for ...
... original , sometimes , as may be supposed , with no good to his author , yet sometimes even with improve- ment , and the line has always something poetical in it , though its taste may not be the true one . In the third book , for ...
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Abydos admiration affected Apollo appears bard beautiful better bow'd bright called character Coleridge court court of aldermen cried criticism delight Dryden elegant Eloisa to Abelard ev'ry eyes Fairfax fancy faults Feast feeling flow'r forget friends genius Giaour give graceful harmony Hayley heart idle imitation Italian Jump-up-and-kiss-me Juvenal keep king Laureat least less lines look look'd Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads mind Montepulciano Muse narch never o'er original passion perhaps persons piece Pindar poem poet Poet Laureat poetical poetry politics poor Pope praise prince PYRRHA reader respect rhyme ribaldry round satire Scott seem'd seems sense Shakspeare simplicity singular Sirmio smiles society song soul Southey sparkling speak species spect Spenser spirit style Tasso taste thee thing thou thought tion true turn turn'd twas only Bob verses versification vex'd vulgar Walter Scott wine words Wordsworth writings written