The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 43
... rhyming facilities have so long withheld us . ( 4 ) Not though I collected one pattern victorious Of all that was good , and accomplish'd , and glorious , From deeds in the daylight , and books on the shelf , And call'd up the shape of ...
... rhyming facilities have so long withheld us . ( 4 ) Not though I collected one pattern victorious Of all that was good , and accomplish'd , and glorious , From deeds in the daylight , and books on the shelf , And call'd up the shape of ...
Page 49
... rhyming . Mr. Ro- gers , of late years , seems to have become aware of the defects of his versification , and attempted the other day to give his harp a higher and more various strain in the fragment upon Columbus ; but the strings ...
... rhyming . Mr. Ro- gers , of late years , seems to have become aware of the defects of his versification , and attempted the other day to give his harp a higher and more various strain in the fragment upon Columbus ; but the strings ...
Page 51
... rhyme , Might have gain'd you a title to this kind of freedom- But volumes of endings , lugg'd in as you need ' em ... rhymes to fit in , and such a mawkish languor of versification , with every now and then a ridiculous hurrying for a ...
... rhyme , Might have gain'd you a title to this kind of freedom- But volumes of endings , lugg'd in as you need ' em ... rhymes to fit in , and such a mawkish languor of versification , with every now and then a ridiculous hurrying for a ...
Page 60
... rhyme , might be denounced ac- cordingly , even to their rheumatism and their crutches ; -but no such things are done now , either by princes , or by the favourites of princes ; speak not of " the imputed weaknesses of the great ...
... rhyme , might be denounced ac- cordingly , even to their rheumatism and their crutches ; -but no such things are done now , either by princes , or by the favourites of princes ; speak not of " the imputed weaknesses of the great ...
Page 65
... rhymes pressed into the service , and his verses dancing away now and then out of the measure , may have been new to the town in general but they are as ancient as recollection itself to the readers of poetry ; and a person tolerably ...
... rhymes pressed into the service , and his verses dancing away now and then out of the measure , may have been new to the town in general but they are as ancient as recollection itself to the readers of poetry ; and a person tolerably ...
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