Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageG. Olms, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 54
... less airy , is less pleasing . Of his other compo- sitions it is impossible to say whether they are the productions of Nature , so excellent as not to want the help of Art , or of Art so refined as to resemble Nature " . This criticism ...
... less airy , is less pleasing . Of his other compo- sitions it is impossible to say whether they are the productions of Nature , so excellent as not to want the help of Art , or of Art so refined as to resemble Nature " . This criticism ...
Page 203
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excel- lence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers ...
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excel- lence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers ...
Page 375
... less melancholy , was less affecting , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that had formerly relieved him thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise considered by ...
... less melancholy , was less affecting , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that had formerly relieved him thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise considered by ...
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