The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 37
... written what was best . The reader will recollect that these lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton's ear profited by his acquaintance with the Greek and Italian writers , as well as those of his own ...
... written what was best . The reader will recollect that these lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton's ear profited by his acquaintance with the Greek and Italian writers , as well as those of his own ...
Page 40
... written , has not only had a particular time and tune annexed to it from time immemorial , so as to be led off like a kind of dance , but as the couplets are really made up of four lines thrown into two , may he allowed to appeal to its ...
... written , has not only had a particular time and tune annexed to it from time immemorial , so as to be led off like a kind of dance , but as the couplets are really made up of four lines thrown into two , may he allowed to appeal to its ...
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... written for the poem to which they belong , not the poem for the notes , it is high time to finish the one before me ; other- wise I was much tempted to conclude it with some counter examples of real poetic harmony from the verses of ...
... written for the poem to which they belong , not the poem for the notes , it is high time to finish the one before me ; other- wise I was much tempted to conclude it with some counter examples of real poetic harmony from the verses of ...
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... written in Latin by one of his most familiar and intelligent friends , Asser of Saint David's , whom he had in- vited to court from a monastery . There is a good edition of it , and , I believe , not a scarce one , by Francis Wise , who ...
... written in Latin by one of his most familiar and intelligent friends , Asser of Saint David's , whom he had in- vited to court from a monastery . There is a good edition of it , and , I believe , not a scarce one , by Francis Wise , who ...
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... written in a singular style , than in any other English performance . It is still , however , a disgrace to English biogra- phy , that there is no life of our unrivalled coun- tryman , important enough from the size and the composition ...
... written in a singular style , than in any other English performance . It is still , however , a disgrace to English biogra- phy , that there is no life of our unrivalled coun- tryman , important enough from the size and the composition ...
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