Letters and Essays in Prose and VerseE. Moxon, 1834 - 268 lappuses |
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31. lappuse
... poetry , nor even the custom of making verses in a living or a dead language . I do not know any means of becoming so intimately acquainted with the powers of a language as by composing verses . The restraints of metre 31 TO THE SAME.
... poetry , nor even the custom of making verses in a living or a dead language . I do not know any means of becoming so intimately acquainted with the powers of a language as by composing verses . The restraints of metre 31 TO THE SAME.
32. lappuse
... poetry is quite needless . No subject has been treated of by abler writers . Yet , as you wish to recall some parts of our last long conversation , I will again mention a short forgotten passage of an author , who was made ridiculous by ...
... poetry is quite needless . No subject has been treated of by abler writers . Yet , as you wish to recall some parts of our last long conversation , I will again mention a short forgotten passage of an author , who was made ridiculous by ...
33. lappuse
... poetry and oratory . It has in some sort the same effect upon every " mind that it has upon that of the populace ; and I fear the quickness " and delicate impatience of these polished times are but the forerun- " ners of the decline of ...
... poetry and oratory . It has in some sort the same effect upon every " mind that it has upon that of the populace ; and I fear the quickness " and delicate impatience of these polished times are but the forerun- " ners of the decline of ...
34. lappuse
... poet describing some children at play among the tombs- 66 Alas ! unconscious of the kindred earth , That faintly echoed to the voice of mirth . ” Take too a whole stanza from the " Annus Mirabilis , " chiefly for the sake of one little ...
... poet describing some children at play among the tombs- 66 Alas ! unconscious of the kindred earth , That faintly echoed to the voice of mirth . ” Take too a whole stanza from the " Annus Mirabilis , " chiefly for the sake of one little ...
35. lappuse
... poetry should be " simple , " and though it must be allowed to magnify its objects and to brighten their colours , it ought not to change their forms and proportions . It may exaggerate , but must not distort . This warning is much ...
... poetry should be " simple , " and though it must be allowed to magnify its objects and to brighten their colours , it ought not to change their forms and proportions . It may exaggerate , but must not distort . This warning is much ...
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