The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 47
... better race : for there was an ideal sickliness about Mr. Cumberland - a hanker- ing after petty effects and smooth - speaking sym- pathies an inaptitude , in short , to fall in with the real forms and spirits of life , which made him ...
... better race : for there was an ideal sickliness about Mr. Cumberland - a hanker- ing after petty effects and smooth - speaking sym- pathies an inaptitude , in short , to fall in with the real forms and spirits of life , which made him ...
Page 58
... better than some unlucky commentator , is something upon which he thinks himself entitled to be indignant and retributive . I pass over the nauseous Epistle to Peter Pindar , and even the notes to his Baviad and Moviad , where , though ...
... better than some unlucky commentator , is something upon which he thinks himself entitled to be indignant and retributive . I pass over the nauseous Epistle to Peter Pindar , and even the notes to his Baviad and Moviad , where , though ...
Page 59
... better mten , as may be seen where he differs with his brother commentators on Juvenal ; and every decent mind , I believe , has been disgusted with his tiresome , peevish , and useless insults over his precursors in the explanation of ...
... better mten , as may be seen where he differs with his brother commentators on Juvenal ; and every decent mind , I believe , has been disgusted with his tiresome , peevish , and useless insults over his precursors in the explanation of ...
Page 61
... better than the usual monotonous ver- sification ; but in aiming at vigour and variety , he has fallen into no versification at all , and become lame and prosaical . The only approach that he ever made to the poetical character was in ...
... better than the usual monotonous ver- sification ; but in aiming at vigour and variety , he has fallen into no versification at all , and become lame and prosaical . The only approach that he ever made to the poetical character was in ...
Page 67
... better genius between the versification of others and the struggle to express his own thoughts in their natural language . I speak not of the Plea- sures of Hope , which , though abundant in promise , is a young and uninformed ...
... better genius between the versification of others and the struggle to express his own thoughts in their natural language . I speak not of the Plea- sures of Hope , which , though abundant in promise , is a young and uninformed ...
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