 | 1805 - 756 pages
...liveliness of the defcription, the fweetnefs of the numbers, the claflkat fpirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way,...poetical numbers, or that it was flopped by prejudice againil the harmony of Milton's ; was there ever, any thing fo delightful as the mufic of the Paradife... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pages
...liveliness of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way,...he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's; was there ever any thing so delightful as the... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 pages
...liveliness of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced, by the way,...he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's ; was there ever any thing so delightful as the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 pages
...of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity, that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way,...he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped, by prejudice, against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...of the description, the sweetuess of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity, that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced, by the way,...he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped, hy prejudice, against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing no delightful as the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 324 pages
...liveliness of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way,...he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the... | |
 | 1826 - 440 pages
...liveliness of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way,...he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the... | |
 | 1820 - 688 pages
...description, the sweetness of the numbers. 1820.] 408 [Aw the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no •Mr for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's ; was... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...liveliness of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced, by the way,...he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was •topped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...liveliness of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way,...he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the... | |
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The liveliness of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the... 
