The feast of the poets, with notes, and other pieces in verse, by the editor of The Examiner. The dedication signed: Leigh HuntLondon, 1815 |
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Page 13
... becoming a byeword and joke , Should have brought back our fine old pre - eminent way , And been the first man at my table to day : But resolv'd as I am to maintain the partitions ' Twixt wit and mere wildness , he knows the conditions ...
... becoming a byeword and joke , Should have brought back our fine old pre - eminent way , And been the first man at my table to day : But resolv'd as I am to maintain the partitions ' Twixt wit and mere wildness , he knows the conditions ...
Page 28
... become intimate with his great predecessors , and with the principles of musical beauty in general . Johnson , it is true , objects to those who judge of Pope's versification " by principles rather than perception , " 28 NOTES ON THE.
... become intimate with his great predecessors , and with the principles of musical beauty in general . Johnson , it is true , objects to those who judge of Pope's versification " by principles rather than perception , " 28 NOTES ON THE.
Page 30
... become on this head , that even those who sat down for the express purpose of calling Mr. Pope's admirers to a proper and smaller sense of his merits as a poet , were never- theless equally agreed , that as a versifier his pre- eminence ...
... become on this head , that even those who sat down for the express purpose of calling Mr. Pope's admirers to a proper and smaller sense of his merits as a poet , were never- theless equally agreed , that as a versifier his pre- eminence ...
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... , impartings , and all the endless common - places of magazine rhyming . Mr. Rogers , of late years , seems to have become aware of the defects of his versifi- cation , and attempted the other day to give his FEAST OF THE POETS .
... , impartings , and all the endless common - places of magazine rhyming . Mr. Rogers , of late years , seems to have become aware of the defects of his versifi- cation , and attempted the other day to give his FEAST OF THE POETS .
Page 56
... teach us to vary our music and to address ourselves more directly to nature ; but nature herself is , of course , the great and perfecting mis- tress , without whom we become either eccentric pretenders , 56 NOTES ON THE.
... teach us to vary our music and to address ourselves more directly to nature ; but nature herself is , of course , the great and perfecting mis- tress , without whom we become either eccentric pretenders , 56 NOTES ON THE.
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