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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... pleasing effect is univerfally known and acknow- ledged , yet have we but one profeffed criticism on their compofition ; and this , though elegant and ingenious , is both too fhort and too fuperficial to give precision and and accuracy ...
... pleasing effect is univerfally known and acknow- ledged , yet have we but one profeffed criticism on their compofition ; and this , though elegant and ingenious , is both too fhort and too fuperficial to give precision and and accuracy ...
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... pleasing inci- dents of a paftoral life , the tender cares and ravishing delights of love . This paf- fion found as apt a comparison with the beautiful scenes of nature , as war and deftruction could do with its glooms and horrors ...
... pleasing inci- dents of a paftoral life , the tender cares and ravishing delights of love . This paf- fion found as apt a comparison with the beautiful scenes of nature , as war and deftruction could do with its glooms and horrors ...
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... pleasing fpecimens of this kind of writing is to be found in the ballads of the witty æra of English genius , which I take to be comprehended between the begin- ning of Charles the Second's reign , and the times of Swift and Prior ...
... pleasing fpecimens of this kind of writing is to be found in the ballads of the witty æra of English genius , which I take to be comprehended between the begin- ning of Charles the Second's reign , and the times of Swift and Prior ...
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... pleasing piece of the paftoral kind . The fimplicity of language gives it an air of nature and reality , though the fictitious character be entirely kept up ; and throw- ing the fubject into a little tale , gives an opportunity of ...
... pleasing piece of the paftoral kind . The fimplicity of language gives it an air of nature and reality , though the fictitious character be entirely kept up ; and throw- ing the fubject into a little tale , gives an opportunity of ...
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... pleasing to me . you that have been of her train , Come and join in my amorous lays ; I could lay down my life for the fwain , That will fing but a fong in her praise . When he fings , may the nymphs of the town Come trooping , and ...
... pleasing to me . you that have been of her train , Come and join in my amorous lays ; I could lay down my life for the fwain , That will fing but a fong in her praise . When he fings , may the nymphs of the town Come trooping , and ...
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