The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 48
... once vague and elaborate . His Pleasures of Memory - 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 ...
... once vague and elaborate . His Pleasures of Memory - 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 ...
Page 62
... once by the simple fact , that of all the advocates of Charles the Se- cond , he is the least scrupulous in mentioning his crimes , because he is the least abashed . Other writers have paid decency the compliment of doubting their ...
... once by the simple fact , that of all the advocates of Charles the Se- cond , he is the least scrupulous in mentioning his crimes , because he is the least abashed . Other writers have paid decency the compliment of doubting their ...
Page 71
... a music in them , distinct from the ordinary monotony of his cotempora- ries , and evidently traceable to his taste for the sister art . You feel at once , that his songs are indeed to be sung - a happy propriety , which 12 71.
... a music in them , distinct from the ordinary monotony of his cotempora- ries , and evidently traceable to his taste for the sister art . You feel at once , that his songs are indeed to be sung - a happy propriety , which 12 71.
Page 76
... once out of a hundred times is with him who thinks the whole hundred ; but that he is at the same time a poet , will be no more denied than that the hundredth part of Mr. Words- worth's genius would make a poet . His fancy , perhaps ...
... once out of a hundred times is with him who thinks the whole hundred ; but that he is at the same time a poet , will be no more denied than that the hundredth part of Mr. Words- worth's genius would make a poet . His fancy , perhaps ...
Page 84
... once more the beauties of simplicity and nature ; —that , to this purpose , a poet in the present age , who look- ed upon men with his proper eye , as an enter- tainer and instructor , should choose subjects as far removed as possible ...
... once more the beauties of simplicity and nature ; —that , to this purpose , a poet in the present age , who look- ed upon men with his proper eye , as an enter- tainer and instructor , should choose subjects as far removed as possible ...
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