 ... simplicity; and it is remarkable, that our best writers have not been ashamed to cultivate this branch of poetry. Cowley, Waller, Roscommon, Rowe, Gay, Prior, and many others, have left behind them very elegant ballads: but it must be confessed, to...  The Connoisseur, by mr. Town, critic and censor-general [G. Colman, B ... - 9. oldalszerző: Connoisseur - 1757Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Mr. Town - 1767 - 270 oldal
...Gay, Prior, and many others, have left behind them very elegant Ballads : but it muft be confeffed, to the honour of the prefent age, that it was referved...fciences : I have alfo read of a mill to make verfes j and remember to have feen a curious table, by the afliftance of which the moft illiterate might amufe... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 1168 oldal
...but it must be confessed, to the honour of the present age, that it was reserved for our modern JJ2 writers to bring this kind of poetry to perfection....method as regular and mechanical, as a carpenter or a black. smith. Swift, in his Voyage to Lapura, describes a machine to write books in all arts and sciences... | |
 | 1803 - 202 oldal
...veryelegant ballads: but it must be confessed, to the honour of the present age, that it was reserved for our modern writers to bring this kind of poetry...art ; and the ballad-maker goes to work by a method a's tegular and mechanical, as a carpenter or a blacksmith. Swift, in his voyage to Laputa, describes... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 274 oldal
...very elegant ballads: but it must be confessed, to the honour of the present age, that it was reserved for our modern writers to bring this kind of poetry...method as regular and mechanical, as a carpenter or a blacksmith. Swift, in his Voyage to Laputa, describes a' machine to write books in all arts and sciences:... | |
 | 1823 - 426 oldal
...very elegant ballads: but it must be confessed, to the honour of the present age, that it was reserved for our modern writers to bring this kind of poetry...method as regular and mechanical, as a carpenter or a blacksmith. Swift, in his voyage to Laputa, describes a machine to write books in all arts and sciences:... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 530 oldal
...elegant ballads : but it must be confessed, to the honour of the present age, that it was reserved for our modern writers to bring this kind of poetry...method as regular and mechanical, as a carpenter or a blacksmith. Swift, in his Voyage to Laputa, describes a machine to write books in all arts and sciences... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 854 oldal
...elegant ballads : but it must be confessed, to the honour of the present age, that it was reserved for our modern writers to bring this kind of poetry...method as regular and mechanical, as a carpenter or a blacksmith. Swift, in his voyage to Laputa, describes a machine to write books in all arts and sciences... | |
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