 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 trang
...fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of of the Dorian flute. Variety without end, and never equalled, unless perhaps by Virgil. Whatever is short should be nervous, masculine, and compact. CHARACTER AND SENTIMENTS OF COWPER. Little... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 trang
...that of a fine organ; has the fullest, and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end,...this copious theme, but talks something about the nnfitness of the English language for blank-verse, and how apt it is, in the mouth of some readers,... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 trang
...has the fullest and deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian tlute. Variety without end, and never equalled, unless perhaps...this copious theme ; but talks something about the 1111fituess of the English language for blank verse, and how apt it is in the mouth of some readers,... | |
 | 1826 - 440 trang
...like that of a fine organ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end,...of some readers, to degenerate into declamation." Cowper had no sooner made up his mind on the subject of his new engagement, than he communicated it... | |
 | 1820 - 688 trang
...that of a fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end...this copious theme, but talks something about the unfituess of the English language for hlnuk verse, and how apt it is in the mouth of some readers,... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 trang
...that of a fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end,...something about the unfitness of the English language for blank-verse, and how apt it is, in the mouth of some readers, to degenerate nto declamation." Cowper... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 trang
...that of a fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end,...something about the unfitness of the English language for blank-verse, and how apt it is, in the mouth of some readers, to degenerate into declamation.' Cowper... | |
 | 1835 - 440 trang
...that of a fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end,...of some readers, to degenerate into declamation." Cowper had no sooner made up his mind on the subject of his new engagement, than he communicated it... | |
 | 1836 - 342 trang
...numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity, that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced, by the way, that he has no ear for poetical numbers,...this copious theme ; but talks something about the unntness of the English language for blank verse, and how apt it is, in the mouth of some readers,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 358 trang
...like that of a fine organ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end...mouth of some readers, to degenerate into declamation. Oh ! I could thresh his old jacket, till I made his pension jingle in his pocket. I could talk a good... | |
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It is like that of a fine organ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the Dorian flute. Variety without end and never equalled, unless perhaps by Virgil. 
