...Beattle makes the following observation : — " Not long ago, I began a poem In the style and stanza all give again to Time Hew beings — years — diseases — sorrow 1 mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition."'...

...Beattie makes the following observation : — " not long ago, I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, • [The title was applied to both knights and squires. 1 and be either droll or pathetic, descriptive...

...Spenserian stanza on account of its flexibility, and the freedom with which it admitted of his being ' droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical,* as the humour struck him. A slight sprinkling of archaic words is introduced, as in consonance with the structure...

...Beattie makes the following observation ; — " Not long ago, I began a poem in the style and stanza heir kennel or their shed, Cared little, so that they...gore. Ah, how much happier were good ^Esop's frogs and by the example of some in the highest order of Italian poets, I shall make no apology for attempts...

...alludes to his great work, The Minstrel: — " Not long ago 1 began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope...the humour strikes me ; for, if I mistake not, the manner which I have adopted admite equally of all these kinds of composition. I have written one hundred...

...Beattie makes the following observation : — " Not long ago, I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope...composition." Strengthened in my opinion by such authority, and by the example of some in the highest order of Italian poets, I shall make no apology for attempts...

...Beattie makes the following observation: — "Not long ago, I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope...composition."* — Strengthened in my opinion by such au'hority, and by the example of some in the highest order of Italian poets, I shall make no apology...

...great work, The Minstrel: — " Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, ia which I propose to give , full scope to my inclination,...the humour strikes me ; for, if I mistake not, the manner which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition. I have written one hundred...

...Blacklock, dated 22d September in the same year, Beattie thus alludes to his great work, The Minstrel: — full scope to my inclination, and be either droll...the humour strikes me ; for, if I mistake not, the manner which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition. I have written one hundred...

...Beattie makes the following ohservation : — " Not long ago, I hegan a poem in the style . stanza ft his sylvan cave, And sought a foreign home, a distant grave. To watch he either dr^ pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour strikes me :...