 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...  Annual Register - Σελίδα 23επεξεργασία από - 1780Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1841 - 360 σελίδες
...imagery, and affected diction. Dr. Johnson, in his Life of Oowley, observes that their verses " stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were found to be verses only by counting the syllables." Even that degree of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 σελίδες
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they wrote only 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." . . . .From this account... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 σελίδες
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they wrote only 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." .... From this account... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 σελίδες
...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 - 1858 - 418 σελίδες
...rhyme, instead of writing poetiy fEegr only, wrotef verses", and very often such verses as stood.the? trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was~BO~1niperfiict that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. Wit, like all... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 586 σελίδες
...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." This is as true as... | |
 | 1861 - 584 σελίδες
...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." This is as true as... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 σελίδες
...show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry wrote only 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. Let us picture to ourselves... | |
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