The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 40
... kind of dance , but as the couplets are really made up of four lines thrown into two , may he allowed to appeal to its own laws . This , however , is a trifle not worth the settling . The chief merit which is expected in verses of this ...
... kind of dance , but as the couplets are really made up of four lines thrown into two , may he allowed to appeal to its own laws . This , however , is a trifle not worth the settling . The chief merit which is expected in verses of this ...
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... kind of sing - song , should be an advocate for other extremes , and for the affected varieties of which Johnson speaks . Let the varieties , like all the other beauties of a poet , be perfectly unaffect- ed : but passion and fancy ...
... kind of sing - song , should be an advocate for other extremes , and for the affected varieties of which Johnson speaks . Let the varieties , like all the other beauties of a poet , be perfectly unaffect- ed : but passion and fancy ...
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... kind . Little , perhaps , could be added to the facts of his story ; but they are of a nature to be rendered doubly interesting by proper management ; no subject , it is evident , could be more justly provocative of elegant reflec- tion ...
... kind . Little , perhaps , could be added to the facts of his story ; but they are of a nature to be rendered doubly interesting by proper management ; no subject , it is evident , could be more justly provocative of elegant reflec- tion ...
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... kind of bustle between the lameness of Cowper and the slip - shod vigour of Churchill , though I am afraid it has more of the former than the latter . When he would strike out a line particularly grand or melodious , he has evidently no ...
... kind of bustle between the lameness of Cowper and the slip - shod vigour of Churchill , though I am afraid it has more of the former than the latter . When he would strike out a line particularly grand or melodious , he has evidently no ...
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... kind of freedom- But volumes of endings , lugg'd in as you need ' em , Of hearts and imparts - where's the soul that can read ' em ? There is something not inelegant or unfanciful in the conduct of Mr. Hayley's Triumphs of Tem- per ...
... kind of freedom- But volumes of endings , lugg'd in as you need ' em , Of hearts and imparts - where's the soul that can read ' em ? There is something not inelegant or unfanciful in the conduct of Mr. Hayley's Triumphs of Tem- per ...
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