Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - 286 pages |
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Page iv
... taste for the beauties of poetry , and that talent for producing those beauties , for all which Mr. Rafbotham is fo well known and so justly admired , will , I am fure , be thought to stamp a pecu- liar propriety on my intentions ...
... taste for the beauties of poetry , and that talent for producing those beauties , for all which Mr. Rafbotham is fo well known and so justly admired , will , I am fure , be thought to stamp a pecu- liar propriety on my intentions ...
Page vi
... taste for genuine poetry , in this pleafing branch of it , was to be appre- bended . This we in great measure attributed to the fashionable rage for mufic , which had encouraged fuch a mushroom growth of comic operas , that vile mongrel ...
... taste for genuine poetry , in this pleafing branch of it , was to be appre- bended . This we in great measure attributed to the fashionable rage for mufic , which had encouraged fuch a mushroom growth of comic operas , that vile mongrel ...
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... taste for it is never acquired without a confiderable degree of national refinement . Pieces of wit are therefore later in their date than any others . THIS brief account of the progrefs of poetry in general being premifed , let us ...
... taste for it is never acquired without a confiderable degree of national refinement . Pieces of wit are therefore later in their date than any others . THIS brief account of the progrefs of poetry in general being premifed , let us ...
Page 27
... of curio- fity to the antiquarian and man of taste . As it is not my design to collect pieces of this fort , which is already done in a very elegant elegant manner by Dr. Percy , in his Reliques of PASTORAL SONGS . 27.
... of curio- fity to the antiquarian and man of taste . As it is not my design to collect pieces of this fort , which is already done in a very elegant elegant manner by Dr. Percy , in his Reliques of PASTORAL SONGS . 27.
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... taste elevated , by an acquaintance with the Greek and Latin authors , the fubjects of the Epic Muse were no longer dreft in the homely garb of the popular ballad , but affumed the borrowed orna- ment and ftately air of heroic poetry ...
... taste elevated , by an acquaintance with the Greek and Latin authors , the fubjects of the Epic Muse were no longer dreft in the homely garb of the popular ballad , but affumed the borrowed orna- ment and ftately air of heroic poetry ...
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