Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - 286 страници |
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... it was remarkably the more deficient in poetical merit ; fo that a total decay of all taste for genuine poetry , in this pleafing branch of it , was to be appre- bended . This we in great measure attributed to the fashionable rage for ...
... it was remarkably the more deficient in poetical merit ; fo that a total decay of all taste for genuine poetry , in this pleafing branch of it , was to be appre- bended . This we in great measure attributed to the fashionable rage for ...
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... it would show that industry at leaft had not been wanting in accomplishing it . This kind of praise , however , is of so infe- riour a nature , that , I confefs , it would fcarcely fatisfy my ambition . During the progress of my ...
... it would show that industry at leaft had not been wanting in accomplishing it . This kind of praise , however , is of so infe- riour a nature , that , I confefs , it would fcarcely fatisfy my ambition . During the progress of my ...
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... It is not enough that poe- try does not difguft , it ought to give raptures . A much more difagreeable piece of severity was the rejection of feveral pieces , marked with a rich vein of genuine poetry , but not fufficiently guarded from ...
... It is not enough that poe- try does not difguft , it ought to give raptures . A much more difagreeable piece of severity was the rejection of feveral pieces , marked with a rich vein of genuine poetry , but not fufficiently guarded from ...
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... It is not , Celia , in our power It was a Friar of orders gray L ATE when love I feem'd to flight Let not love on me bestow Let the ambitious favour find Love and Folly were at play Love's a dream of mighty treasure Love's but the ...
... It is not , Celia , in our power It was a Friar of orders gray L ATE when love I feem'd to flight Let not love on me bestow Let the ambitious favour find Love and Folly were at play Love's a dream of mighty treasure Love's but the ...
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... She loves and the confeffes too Should some perverse malignant star Stella and Flåvia every hour Strephon has fashion , wit and youth Strephon , when you see me fly Swain , thy hopeless passion smother AELL me no more I am deceiv'd T ...
... She loves and the confeffes too Should some perverse malignant star Stella and Flåvia every hour Strephon has fashion , wit and youth Strephon , when you see me fly Swain , thy hopeless passion smother AELL me no more I am deceiv'd T ...
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