The feast of the poets, with notes, and other pieces in verse, by the editor of The Examiner. The dedication signed: Leigh HuntLondon, 1815 |
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... readers in general , it must be confessed , have more than acquiesced in their want of ambition . The late Dr. Darwin , whose notion of poetical music , in common with that of Goldsmith and others , was of the school of Pope , though ...
... readers in general , it must be confessed , have more than acquiesced in their want of ambition . The late Dr. Darwin , whose notion of poetical music , in common with that of Goldsmith and others , was of the school of Pope , though ...
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... reading , Save lyons , beares , and buls , & c . as would the following also , Book 5. Canto 2. St. 30 . Yet was ... reader will recollect , that these lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton's ear profited ...
... reading , Save lyons , beares , and buls , & c . as would the following also , Book 5. Canto 2. St. 30 . Yet was ... reader will recollect , that these lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton's ear profited ...
Page 32
... reader may observe several of like sort , where the accent is varied and cadence changed , lest the ear should be tired with one unvaried sameness of measure , like a ring of bells without any changes . " of those who do not ...
... reader may observe several of like sort , where the accent is varied and cadence changed , lest the ear should be tired with one unvaried sameness of measure , like a ring of bells without any changes . " of those who do not ...
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... readers is once roused to this point , they will find our author not merely deficient on the score of harmony , but to a degree apparently so obvious and at the same time so surprising , that they will be inclined to wonder how they ...
... readers is once roused to this point , they will find our author not merely deficient on the score of harmony , but to a degree apparently so obvious and at the same time so surprising , that they will be inclined to wonder how they ...
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... reader take any dozen or twenty lines from Pope at a hazard , or if he pleases , from his best and most elaborate passages , and he will find that they have scarcely any other pauses than at the fourth or fifth syllable , and both with ...
... reader take any dozen or twenty lines from Pope at a hazard , or if he pleases , from his best and most elaborate passages , and he will find that they have scarcely any other pauses than at the fourth or fifth syllable , and both with ...
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