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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800. Excerpt: ... NUMBER XXV. Hail, ye mighty masters of the lay, Nature's true sons, the friends of man and truth! Whose song, sublimely sweet, serenely gay, Amused my childhood, and inform'd my youth. O let your spirit still my bosom sooth, Inspire my dreams, and my wild wanderings guide! Your voice each rugged path of life can smooth; For well I know, where-ever ye reside, There harmony, and peace, and innocence, abide. Beattie. It is the remark of an author of exquisite taste that "the moderns have perhaps practised no species of poetry with so little success, and with such indisputable inferiority to the ancients, as the Ode." Greatly as I respect the abilities and critical acumen of Dr. Warton, I am tempted in this instance to form a very dif Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, vol. i. p. 64. ferent judgment, and shall endeavour to rescue the poets of this island at least, from an imputation they probably have not merited. This ingenious writer conceives their want of success to be owing to the harshness and intractability of the language they have had the misfortune to compose in; now, though it may be.readily conceded that the English in sweetness and smoothness must, in general, yield to the Greek, and sometimes even to the Latin, yet have we, especially among our later poets, many specimens of versification, and of selection of language, peculiarly musical and harmonious, and fully adequate to prove that all its asperities may be worn down by the judicious application of the file,-and rendered sufficiently terse and polished for the more delicate effusions' of the lyre. Could it be indeed for a moment supposed that mere smoothness of diction constituted the sole, or even the principal merit of lyric poetry, it might justly be deemed the most worthless of a...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150357134
- ISBN 13 9781150357138
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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