 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 páginas
...of learning, and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour : but, unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme, inftead of writing poetry they only wrote verfes, and very often fuch verfes as flood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo imperfect that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 páginas
...it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses^ and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 páginas
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 páginas
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 páginas
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...Chamberlain of London ; and has every year since be«n unajli, Wously re-elected, N, verges as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they Were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 páginas
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. " If the father of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 páginas
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 páginas
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
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The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger... 
