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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... line has escaped him respecting one of them , for which he is sorry , both on account of the general character of the individual , and the nature of the allusion , which involves a personality not warrant- able by any circumstances but ...
... line has escaped him respecting one of them , for which he is sorry , both on account of the general character of the individual , and the nature of the allusion , which involves a personality not warrant- able by any circumstances but ...
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... lines he had made on a straw , Shewing how he had found it , and what it was for , And how , when ' twas balanc'd , it stood like a spell ! — And how , when ' twas balanc'd no longer , it fell ! A wild thing of scorn he describ'd it to ...
... lines he had made on a straw , Shewing how he had found it , and what it was for , And how , when ' twas balanc'd , it stood like a spell ! — And how , when ' twas balanc'd no longer , it fell ! A wild thing of scorn he describ'd it to ...
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... lines and vary his pauses . " It is dangerous to hazard conclusions with regard to the opinions of others , upon matters of which our own senses have but imperfectly informed us . John- son , by his own confession , had no ear ; and on ...
... lines and vary his pauses . " It is dangerous to hazard conclusions with regard to the opinions of others , upon matters of which our own senses have but imperfectly informed us . John- son , by his own confession , had no ear ; and on ...
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... lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton's ear profited by his acquaintance with the Greek and Italian writers as well as those of his own country , that he had ob tained no perception of what is musical ...
... lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton's ear profited by his acquaintance with the Greek and Italian writers as well as those of his own country , that he had ob tained no perception of what is musical ...
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... line after line , sometimes upon only one of them for eight or ten lines toge- ther ; so that when Voltaire praised him for bring ing down the harsh wranglings of the English trum- pet to the soft tones of the flute * , he should have ...
... line after line , sometimes upon only one of them for eight or ten lines toge- ther ; so that when Voltaire praised him for bring ing down the harsh wranglings of the English trum- pet to the soft tones of the flute * , he should have ...
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