 | William Russell - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they wrote only verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables." .... From this account... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...rhyme, instead of writing poetiy fEegr only, wrotef verses", and very often such verses as stood.the? trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was~BO~1niperfiict that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. Wit, like all... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables." This is as true as... | |
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables." This is as true as... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry wrote only verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear, for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. Let us picture to ourselves... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. " If the father of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...shew it in rime, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses, by counting the syllables. If the father of criticism... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...in rhyme, instead of writing poetry * they only wrote verses ; * and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so im- 15 perfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables. • 4. If the father... | |
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The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger... 
