Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - 286 страница |
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... fuch a mushroom growth of comic operas , that , vile mongrel of the drama , where the most enchanting tunes are fuited with the moft flat and wretched combinations of words that ever difgraced the genius of a nation ; and where the ...
... fuch a mushroom growth of comic operas , that , vile mongrel of the drama , where the most enchanting tunes are fuited with the moft flat and wretched combinations of words that ever difgraced the genius of a nation ; and where the ...
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... fuch dubious merit as would allow the reader to befitate in his approbation of them . I have felt very little fcruple in rejecting a number of thefe . It is not enough that poe- try does not difguft , it ought to give raptures . A much ...
... fuch dubious merit as would allow the reader to befitate in his approbation of them . I have felt very little fcruple in rejecting a number of thefe . It is not enough that poe- try does not difguft , it ought to give raptures . A much ...
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... whofe names adorn this collection , which I hope they will not think too dearly purchased by the perufal of fuch introductory matter as is fubmitted to their candid exa- mination . A TABLE O F FIRST LINES . Page A H PREFACE . xi.
... whofe names adorn this collection , which I hope they will not think too dearly purchased by the perufal of fuch introductory matter as is fubmitted to their candid exa- mination . A TABLE O F FIRST LINES . Page A H PREFACE . xi.
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... fuch as the number of lines com- posing a stanza , the repetition of a line at regular distances , the ordonnance of the rhyme , and the like . THE laborious Baron Bielfield , in his elements of univerfal erudition , has thought it ...
... fuch as the number of lines com- posing a stanza , the repetition of a line at regular distances , the ordonnance of the rhyme , and the like . THE laborious Baron Bielfield , in his elements of univerfal erudition , has thought it ...
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... fuch inftances - it will be fufficient to refer to his first ode fi neque tibias Euterpe cohibet , nec Polyhymnia Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton . immedi- immediately after , to fix the class of po- ets IN GENERAL . 15.
... fuch inftances - it will be fufficient to refer to his first ode fi neque tibias Euterpe cohibet , nec Polyhymnia Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton . immedi- immediately after , to fix the class of po- ets IN GENERAL . 15.
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Anacreon antient beauty becauſe befide bleft bluſh bofom breaft CATULLUS CELIA charms CHLOE compariſon compofition cruel dear defire deſcription deſpair eaſe Engliſh epigram expreffion eyes fair falfe fancy fatire feek feem fentiment fhade fhall fhepherd fhould figh fimplicity fince fing firft firſt fmiles foft fome fond fong fong-writing forrows foul ftill ftrain fubject fuch furprize fwain fweet gentle give grace heart itſelf kind know my love laft lefs loft lov'd lover Lyric poetry maid meaſure moſt mufic muft muſt nature ne'er nymph o'er paffion paftoral pain PHYLLIS pieces pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poetical poetry praiſe prefent purpoſe racter reft rofe Sappho ſcene ſhall ſhe ſmile SOAME JENYNS ſpeak ſpread ſpring ſtay ſtill taſte tears tell tender thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro tivation Twas uſed vows whofe whoſe wiſh youth
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