Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritR.H. Evans, 1810 - 352 pages |
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... pastoral life , the tender cares and ravish- ing delights of love . This passion found . as apt a comparison with the beautiful scenes of nature , as war and destruction could do with its glooms and horrors . Ossian and Theocritus will ...
... pastoral life , the tender cares and ravish- ing delights of love . This passion found . as apt a comparison with the beautiful scenes of nature , as war and destruction could do with its glooms and horrors . Ossian and Theocritus will ...
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... pastoral life , he must give as great an air of reality as possible to his piece , since a bad imitation necessarily produces disgust . On the other hand , when the aim is to elevate and surprise , to gratify a love of novelty , and the ...
... pastoral life , he must give as great an air of reality as possible to his piece , since a bad imitation necessarily produces disgust . On the other hand , when the aim is to elevate and surprise , to gratify a love of novelty , and the ...
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... pastoral poetry of our country furnishes the first class in the popular pieces called Ballads . These consist of the Village Tale , the Dialogue of Rustic Courtship , the Description of Natural Objects , and the Incidents of a Rural ...
... pastoral poetry of our country furnishes the first class in the popular pieces called Ballads . These consist of the Village Tale , the Dialogue of Rustic Courtship , the Description of Natural Objects , and the Incidents of a Rural ...
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... easily perceive , and I hope make proper allowances for several instances of equivocal arrange- ment , which from this cause I have not been able to avoid . ESSAY ON BALLADS AND PASTORAL SONGS . THE Ballad may 22 ON SONG - WRITING , & c .
... easily perceive , and I hope make proper allowances for several instances of equivocal arrange- ment , which from this cause I have not been able to avoid . ESSAY ON BALLADS AND PASTORAL SONGS . THE Ballad may 22 ON SONG - WRITING , & c .
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... PASTORAL SONGS . THE Ballad may be considered as the native species of Poetry of this country . It very exactly answers the idea formerly given of original Poetry , being the rude uncultivated verse in which the popular tale of the ...
... PASTORAL SONGS . THE Ballad may be considered as the native species of Poetry of this country . It very exactly answers the idea formerly given of original Poetry , being the rude uncultivated verse in which the popular tale of the ...
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