The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 25
... things above , and beneath , and around , Seem'd a world of bright vision , set floating in sound . That sight and that music might not be sustain'd But by those who a glory like Dryden's had gain'd ; ( 22 ) And even the four who had ...
... things above , and beneath , and around , Seem'd a world of bright vision , set floating in sound . That sight and that music might not be sustain'd But by those who a glory like Dryden's had gain'd ; ( 22 ) And even the four who had ...
Page 31
... bad , called collections of the English Poets ; but very few persons know any thing of him ; and they who do will hardly object to the tone of contempt with which Apollo speaks of a grave coxcomb , 5 Notes to the Feast, •
... bad , called collections of the English Poets ; but very few persons know any thing of him ; and they who do will hardly object to the tone of contempt with which Apollo speaks of a grave coxcomb , 5 Notes to the Feast, •
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... things which look more like the robust ignorance of a vulgar young rake , than the proceedings of even an old man of the world who is approaching his grave , have met with their just reprobation from every reader of common sense . The ...
... things which look more like the robust ignorance of a vulgar young rake , than the proceedings of even an old man of the world who is approaching his grave , have met with their just reprobation from every reader of common sense . The ...
Page 49
... thing in Mr. Rogers's productions appears to me to be his Epistle to a Friend , de- scribing a house and its ornaments . It has a good deal of elegant luxury about it , and seems to have been the best written because the most felt ...
... thing in Mr. Rogers's productions appears to me to be his Epistle to a Friend , de- scribing a house and its ornaments . It has a good deal of elegant luxury about it , and seems to have been the best written because the most felt ...
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... things must be remembered to his honour - first , that although he had not genius enough to revive the taste in his poetry , he has been the quickest of our late writers to point out the great superiority of the Italian school over the ...
... things must be remembered to his honour - first , that although he had not genius enough to revive the taste in his poetry , he has been the quickest of our late writers to point out the great superiority of the Italian school over the ...
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