Essays on Song-writing; with a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritEvans, 1810 - 352 страници |
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... Poetry , I have fre- quently joined them in lamenting that the number of excellent Songs which our language afforded , were so dispersed through a variety of authors , or over- whelmed in injudicious Collections , that it was a most ...
... Poetry , I have fre- quently joined them in lamenting that the number of excellent Songs which our language afforded , were so dispersed through a variety of authors , or over- whelmed in injudicious Collections , that it was a most ...
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... Poetry , in this pleasing branch of it , was to be apprehended . This we in great measure attributed to the fashion- able rage for Music , which had encou- raged such a mushroom growth of Comic Operas , that vile mongrel of the Drama ...
... Poetry , in this pleasing branch of it , was to be apprehended . This we in great measure attributed to the fashion- able rage for Music , which had encou- raged such a mushroom growth of Comic Operas , that vile mongrel of the Drama ...
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... Poetry affords . Difference of taste will always prevent uniformity of judgment , even where the faculties of ... Poetry does not disgust , it ought to give raptures . A much more disagreeable piece of severity was the re- jection of ...
... Poetry affords . Difference of taste will always prevent uniformity of judgment , even where the faculties of ... Poetry does not disgust , it ought to give raptures . A much more disagreeable piece of severity was the re- jection of ...
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... poet's song : Hence Sappho's soft infectious page ; Monimia's woe ; Othello's rage ; Abandon'd Dido's fruitless prayer ; And Eloisa's long despair : The garland bless'd with many a vow , For haughty Sacharissa's brow ; And , wash'd with ...
... poet's song : Hence Sappho's soft infectious page ; Monimia's woe ; Othello's rage ; Abandon'd Dido's fruitless prayer ; And Eloisa's long despair : The garland bless'd with many a vow , For haughty Sacharissa's brow ; And , wash'd with ...
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... poetry , the epic and dramatic , have long engaged the nicest attention of taste and criticism , the humbler but not less pleas- ing productions of the Muse have not obtained that notice from the critic to which the exertions of the poet ...
... poetry , the epic and dramatic , have long engaged the nicest attention of taste and criticism , the humbler but not less pleas- ing productions of the Muse have not obtained that notice from the critic to which the exertions of the poet ...
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