The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 41
... versification , which are not possessed by even Sternhold and Hopkins ? Out of eighteen lines , we have no less than thirteen in succession which pause at the fourth syllable - to say nothing of the four ies and the six os which fall ...
... versification , which are not possessed by even Sternhold and Hopkins ? Out of eighteen lines , we have no less than thirteen in succession which pause at the fourth syllable - to say nothing of the four ies and the six os which fall ...
Page 42
... versification : for who can deny that in the walks of his Muse Grove nods at grove - each alley has its brother , And half the platform - just reflects the other ? As the present notes are written for the poem to which they belong , not ...
... versification : for who can deny that in the walks of his Muse Grove nods at grove - each alley has its brother , And half the platform - just reflects the other ? As the present notes are written for the poem to which they belong , not ...
Page 43
... versification , and such as with due regard to every man's own mode of thinking and speaking , might lead the poets of the present age to that proper mixture of sweetness and strength - of modern finish and ancient variety , from which ...
... versification , and such as with due regard to every man's own mode of thinking and speaking , might lead the poets of the present age to that proper mixture of sweetness and strength - of modern finish and ancient variety , from which ...
Page 48
... - a poem , at best , in imitation of Goldsmith - is writ- ten in the worst and most monotonous taste of modern versification ; to say nothing of the never- failing souls and controls , thoughts and fraughts , tablets 48.
... - a poem , at best , in imitation of Goldsmith - is writ- ten in the worst and most monotonous taste of modern versification ; to say nothing of the never- failing souls and controls , thoughts and fraughts , tablets 48.
Page 49
... versification , and attempted the other day to give his harp a higher and more various strain in the fragment upon Columbus ; but the strings appear to have been in danger of snapping . It was ludicrous enough , however , and affords a ...
... versification , and attempted the other day to give his harp a higher and more various strain in the fragment upon Columbus ; but the strings appear to have been in danger of snapping . It was ludicrous enough , however , and affords a ...
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