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" There is not an ode in the English language which is constructed like these two compositions ; with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness, with such proportioned pauses and just cadences, with such regulated measures of the verse, with such master... "
Letters Written by the Late Earl of Chatham to His Nephew Thomas Pitt ... - Page 72
by William Pitt - 1804 - 104 pages
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...language which " is constructed like these two compositions ; with " such power, such majesty, and such sweetness, " with such proportioned pauses and...of the lines in " each stanza, with such a musical magic, that every " verse in it in succession dwells on the ear and " harmonizes with that which has...
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History of the English Language and Literature

Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 pages
...Mr. Matthias, ' which is constructed like these two compositions ; with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness ; with such proportioned pauses and...displayed and exemplified, and at the same time with such concealment of the victory, which is lost in the softness and uninterrupted flowing of the lines in...
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History of the English Language and Literature

Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 pages
...Mr. Matthias, ' which is constructed like these two compositions ; with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness ; with such proportioned pauses and...displayed and exemplified, and at the same time with such concealment of the victory, which is lost in the softness and uninterrupted flowing of the lines in...
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History of the English Language and Literature

Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 pages
...of lyrical art displayed and exemplified, and at the same time with such concealment of the victory, which is lost in the softness and uninterrupted flowing of the lines in each stanza ; with such a magical music, that every verse in it in succession dwells on the ear and harmonizes with that which...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...English language which is constructed like these two compositions ; with such power, sucl. majesty, and such sweetness ; with such proportioned pauses and...cadences ; with such regulated measures of the verse. ODE ON THE DISTANT PROSPECT pF ETON COLLEOB Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields beloved in...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...English language which is constructed, like these two compositions, with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness, with such proportioned pauses and...concealment of the difficulty, which is lost in the uninterrupted flowing of the lines in each stanza, with such a musical magic, that every verse in it...
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An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...English language which is constructed like these two compositions ; with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness, with such proportioned pauses and...flowing of the lines in each stanza, with such a musical magic, that every verse in it in succession dwells on the ear and harmonizes with that which has gone...
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An Essay on English Poetry; with notices of the British poets. [Edited by ...

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...English language which is constructed like these two compositions ; with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness, with such proportioned pauses and...flowing of the lines in each stanza, with such a musical magic, that every verse in it in succession dwells on the ear and harmonizes with that which has gone...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pages
...English language which is constructed like these two compositions ; with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness ; with such proportioned pauses and...cadences ; with such regulated measures of the verse. ODE ON THE DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields beloved in...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...English language which is constructed like these two compositions; with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness, with such proportioned pauses and...flowing of the lines in each stanza, with such a musical magic, that every verse in it in succession dwells on the ear, and harmonizes with that which has gone...
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