 ... thank Pope : but unless we could imitate him in the closeness and compactness of his expression, as well as in the smoothness of his numbers, we had better drop the imitation, which serves no other purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write....  The life and letters of William Cowper - Página 233por William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 450 páginas
...than to emasculate and weaken all we write. — Give me a manly, rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem full of musical periods,...finished a much longer poem than the last, which our common-friend will receive by the same messenger, that has charge of this letter. In that poem there... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 456 páginas
...purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write.—Give me a manly, rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem full of musical periods,...thus much, as I hinted in the beginning, because I hnve just finished a much longer poem than the last, which our common-friend will receive by the same... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 220 páginas
...purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem full of musical periods,...friend will receive by the same messenger that has charge of this letter. In that poem there are many lines which an ear so nice as the gentleman's who... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 222 páginas
...purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem full of musical periods,...nothing but their oily smoothness to recommend them. lion of it; and what appeared to me its only merit is, in its present state, entirely annihilated.... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 488 páginas
...purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly, rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem full of musical periods,...have just finished a much longer poem than the last, whrch our common friend will receive by the same messenger that has the charge of this letter. In that... | |
 | 1817 - 536 páginas
...purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly, rough line, with a deal of mean, ing in it. rather than a whole poem full of musical periods, that have Bothing but their oily smoothness to recommend them." "I have said thus much, as I hinted in the beginning,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly, rough line, with a deal of meaning he light Shot muoh, as I hinted in the beginning, because I have just finished a much longer poem than the last,... | |
 | 1835 - 932 páginas
...says he, in a letter lo his publisher, " a manly rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather lhan a whole poem full of musical periods, that have nothing but their smoothness to recommend them." It is obvious, however, that this is nol a defence of harsh versification,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 788 páginas
...passage. "Give me," says he, in a letter to his publisher, " a manly rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem full of musical periods, that have nothing but their smoothness to recommend them." It is obvious, however, that this is not a defence of harsh versification,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 páginas
...passage. " Give me," says he, in a letter to his publisher, " a manly rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem full of musical periods, that have nothing but their smoothness to recommend them." It is obvious, however, that this is not a defence of harsh versification,... | |
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