 | William Cowper - 1817 - Počet stránok 324
...without meanness ; harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...fathers have admired him for it so long, that he is an easy writer indeed, but that disease has an air of stiffness in it, in short, that his ease is not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - Počet stránok 602
...seeming to displace a syllabic for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a [Wot ran undertake. He that could accomplish this task was...fallen far short of the original. And now to tell us, alter we and our fathers have adiuircd him for it so long, hat he is an easy writer indeed, but that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Počet stránok 480
...harmoniously, COWPER S LETTERS. elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...fathers have admired him for it so long, that he is an easy writer, indeed, but that his ease has an air of stiffness in it ; in short, that his ease is not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Počet stránok 382
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish * The language in the original is as follows : " His expression has every mark of laborious study ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Počet stránok 370
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish * The language in the original is as follows : " His expression has every mark of laborious study ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 400
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...fathers have admired him for it so long, that he is an easy writer indeed, but that his ease has an air of stiffness in it, in short, that his ease is not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 390
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...fathers have admired him for it so long, that he is an easy writer indeed, but that his ease has an air of stiffness in it, in short, that his ease is not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 406
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...that could accomplish this task was Prior : many have imi55 To Mr. Unwin, March 21, 1784. He asks, and with good reason, what could have suggested to Johnson... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 602
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet can undertake. He that could accomplish * The language in the original is as follows: " His expression has every mark of laborious study ;... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - Počet stránok 380
...without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming to displace a syllable for the sake of the rhyme, is one of the most arduous tasks a poet...best copies have fallen far short of the original." This admiration of a poet with whom he had little that was congenial in his own mind, he probably learned... | |
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To make verse speak the language of prose, without being prosaic, to marshal the words of it in such an order as they might naturally take in falling from the lips of an extemporary speaker, yet without meanness, harmoniously, elegantly, and without seeming... 
