The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... stanza , of which the burden was , " Bannissons la Melancholie : " when it came to his turn to sing , after the per- formance of a young lady that sat next him , he produced these extemporary lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux ...
... stanza , of which the burden was , " Bannissons la Melancholie : " when it came to his turn to sing , after the per- formance of a young lady that sat next him , he produced these extemporary lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux ...
Page 14
... stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His imitation of Spenser , which consists principally in I ween and I weet ...
... stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His imitation of Spenser , which consists principally in I ween and I weet ...
Page 18
... stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has formed his new stanza to that of his master these specimens will shew : SPENSER . She flying fast from ...
... stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has formed his new stanza to that of his master these specimens will shew : SPENSER . She flying fast from ...
Page 30
... stanzas , but the expression might be mended ; and the most striking part of the character had been already shewn ... stanza that is sung or a couplet that is quoted . The general character of his Mis- cellanies is , that they shew ...
... stanzas , but the expression might be mended ; and the most striking part of the character had been already shewn ... stanza that is sung or a couplet that is quoted . The general character of his Mis- cellanies is , that they shew ...
Page 70
... stanzas in this poem where Yalden may be suspected , though hardly convicted , of having consulted the " Hymnus ad Umbram " of Wowerus , in the sixth stanza , which answers in some sort to these lines : Illa suo præest nocturnis numine ...
... stanzas in this poem where Yalden may be suspected , though hardly convicted , of having consulted the " Hymnus ad Umbram " of Wowerus , in the sixth stanza , which answers in some sort to these lines : Illa suo præest nocturnis numine ...
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