 | William Cowper - 1817 - 324 páginas
...without meanness ; harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...fathers have admired him for it so long, that he is an easy writer indeed, but that disease has an air of stiffness in it, in short, that his ease is not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...seeming to displace a syllabic for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a [Wot ran undertake. He that could accomplish this task was...fallen far short of the original. And now to tell us, alter we and our fathers have adiuircd him for it so long, hat he is an easy writer indeed, but that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 páginas
...harmoniously, COWPER S LETTERS. elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...fathers have admired him for it so long, that he is an easy writer, indeed, but that his ease has an air of stiffness in it ; in short, that his ease is not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 páginas
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish * The language in the original is as follows : " His expression has every mark of laborious study ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 páginas
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish * The language in the original is as follows : " His expression has every mark of laborious study ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 400 páginas
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...fathers have admired him for it so long, that he is an easy writer indeed, but that his ease has an air of stiffness in it, in short, that his ease is not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 390 páginas
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...fathers have admired him for it so long, that he is an easy writer indeed, but that his ease has an air of stiffness in it, in short, that his ease is not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 páginas
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...that could accomplish this task was Prior : many have imi55 To Mr. Unwin, March 21, 1784. He asks, and with good reason, what could have suggested to Johnson... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 páginas
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish * The language in the original is as follows: " His expression has every mark of laborious study ;... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 380 páginas
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...best copies have fallen far short of the original." This admiration of a poet with whom he had little that was congenial in his own mind, he probably learned... | |
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To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaic, to marshal the words of it in such an order as they might naturally take in falling from the lips of an extemporary speaker, yet without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming... 
