The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 52
... pleasing analy- sis , with occasional versions of twenty or thirty lines , of the Araucana of Alonzo d'Ercilla , and in the same place is a translation of the three first Cantos of Dante , which , if far beneath the majes- tic ...
... pleasing analy- sis , with occasional versions of twenty or thirty lines , of the Araucana of Alonzo d'Ercilla , and in the same place is a translation of the three first Cantos of Dante , which , if far beneath the majes- tic ...
Page 61
... 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 a place , in the very thick of petty resentments and vulgar personali- ties contradict the better ...
... 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 a place , in the very thick of petty resentments and vulgar personali- ties contradict the better ...
Page 64
... pleasing circum- stance , luxury of description ; and , in his idea of Marmion , has shown a taste for that mixture of genuine human character with the abstractions of poetry , which is a mark of no ordinary genius for narrative . But ...
... pleasing circum- stance , luxury of description ; and , in his idea of Marmion , has shown a taste for that mixture of genuine human character with the abstractions of poetry , which is a mark of no ordinary genius for narrative . But ...
Page 67
... speci- mens of almost every beauty of writing may be found in them ; but they will hardly be pleasing now - a - days in a poem of any length , unless the subject involves a portion of the humorous or satirical , 11 67.
... speci- mens of almost every beauty of writing may be found in them ; but they will hardly be pleasing now - a - days in a poem of any length , unless the subject involves a portion of the humorous or satirical , 11 67.
Page 96
... 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 felicitous imitations of Milton ...
... 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 felicitous imitations of Milton ...
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