The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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... versification - pray give it invention . A fancy like your's , that can play its own part , And clip with fine fingers the chords of the heart , Should draw from itself the whole charm of its song , Nor put up with notes that to others ...
... versification - pray give it invention . A fancy like your's , that can play its own part , And clip with fine fingers the chords of the heart , Should draw from itself the whole charm of its song , Nor put up with notes that to others ...
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... versification is not new ; but his succes- sors have found the style of too easy and ac- commodating a description to part with it ; and readers in general , it must be confessed , have more than acquiesced in their want of ambition ...
... versification is not new ; but his succes- sors have found the style of too easy and ac- commodating a description to part with it ; and readers in general , it must be confessed , have more than acquiesced in their want of ambition ...
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... versification " by principles rather than percep- tion , " treating the accusation against him as a cant , and suspecting that the accusers themselves " would have less pleasure in his works , if he had tried to relieve attention by ...
... versification " by principles rather than percep- tion , " treating the accusation against him as a cant , and suspecting that the accusers themselves " would have less pleasure in his works , if he had tried to relieve attention by ...
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... versification I may here give an amusing instance . In the third book of the Faerie Queene , canto 1. st . 14 , is the following passage : At length they came into a forest wyde , Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound Full ...
... versification I may here give an amusing instance . In the third book of the Faerie Queene , canto 1. st . 14 , is the following passage : At length they came into a forest wyde , Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound Full ...
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... versification , from the very principle which it wants - that of contrast ; they take up a poet for relaxation after their toils , are naturally guid- ed to Pope by the tone of society which is min- gled with his more poetical character ...
... versification , from the very principle which it wants - that of contrast ; they take up a poet for relaxation after their toils , are naturally guid- ed to Pope by the tone of society which is min- gled with his more poetical character ...
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