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... forgotten to mentionYour 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 ...
... forgotten to mentionYour 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 ...
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The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying versification is not new ;
but his successors have found the style of too easy and accommodating a
description to part with it ; and readers in general , it must be confessed , have
more ...
The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying versification is not new ;
but his successors have found the style of too easy and accommodating a
description to part with it ; and readers in general , it must be confessed , have
more ...
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I am only considering his versification ; and upon that point I do not hesitate to
say that I regard him , not only as no master of his art , but as a very indifferent
practiser , and one whose reputation will grow less and less in proportion as the ...
I am only considering his versification ; and upon that point I do not hesitate to
say that I regard him , not only as no master of his art , but as a very indifferent
practiser , and one whose reputation will grow less and less in proportion as the ...
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time to come , adhere to their love of Pope ' s versification , from the very principle
which it wants — that of contrast ; they take up a poet for relaxation after their toils
, are naturally guided to Pope by the tone of society which is mingled with his ...
time to come , adhere to their love of Pope ' s versification , from the very principle
which it wants — that of contrast ; they take up a poet for relaxation after their toils
, are naturally guided to Pope by the tone of society which is mingled with his ...
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The Doctor seems to have had the same notions of poetic harmony as his brother
Thomas , who thought that Milton , notwithstanding his singular skill in music , ”
bad “ a very bad ear , " and of whose beau ideal in versification I may bere give ...
The Doctor seems to have had the same notions of poetic harmony as his brother
Thomas , who thought that Milton , notwithstanding his singular skill in music , ”
bad “ a very bad ear , " and of whose beau ideal in versification I may bere give ...
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| Title | The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
| Author | Leigh Hunt |
| Publisher | J. Cawthorn, 1814 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 157 pages |
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