Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - 286 sider |
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Side iv
... poetry , and that talent for producing those beauties , for all which Mr. Rafbotham is fo well known and so justly admired , will , I am fure , be thought to stamp a pecu- liar propriety on my intentions . ACCEPT , therefore , dear Sir ...
... poetry , and that talent for producing those beauties , for all which Mr. Rafbotham is fo well known and so justly admired , will , I am fure , be thought to stamp a pecu- liar propriety on my intentions . ACCEPT , therefore , dear Sir ...
Side v
... poetry , I have frequently joined them in lamenting that the number of excellent fongs which our language afforded , were fo difperfed through a variety of authors , or overwhelmed in in- judicious collections , that it was a most diffi ...
... poetry , I have frequently joined them in lamenting that the number of excellent fongs which our language afforded , were fo difperfed through a variety of authors , or overwhelmed in in- judicious collections , that it was a most diffi ...
Side vi
... poetry , in this pleafing branch of it , was to be appre- bended . This we in great measure attributed to the fashionable rage for mufic , which had encouraged fuch a mushroom growth of comic operas , that vile mongrel of the drama ...
... poetry , in this pleafing branch of it , was to be appre- bended . This we in great measure attributed to the fashionable rage for mufic , which had encouraged fuch a mushroom growth of comic operas , that vile mongrel of the drama ...
Side ix
... poetry affords . Difference of tafte will always prevent uniformity of judg- ment , even where the faculties of judging are equal ; and I have been much less folicitous to give a collection to which nothing could be added , than one ...
... poetry affords . Difference of tafte will always prevent uniformity of judg- ment , even where the faculties of judging are equal ; and I have been much less folicitous to give a collection to which nothing could be added , than one ...
Side x
... poetry , but not fufficiently guarded from offending that charm- ing delicacy of the fex , which every man must admire , and ought to refpect . These were the luxuriances of an age , when the men of plea- fure lavished wit and genius ...
... poetry , but not fufficiently guarded from offending that charm- ing delicacy of the fex , which every man must admire , and ought to refpect . These were the luxuriances of an age , when the men of plea- fure lavished wit and genius ...
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Anacreon antient ballad beauty becauſe bleffing bleft bofom breaſt CELIA charms CHLOE circumftance compariſon compofition cruel dear defire deſcription deſpair eaſe Engliſh epigram expreffion eyes fair fancy fatire feek feem fentiment fhade fhall fhepherd fhould figh fimple fimplicity fince fing firſt fmiles foft fome fond fong fong-writing forrows foul ftill fubject fuch furprize fwain fweet gentle give grace heart itſelf kind know my love laſt lefs lover Lyric Lyric poetry maid meaſure moft moſt mufic muft muſt nature ne'er nymph o'er paffion paftoral pain paſt PHYLLIS pieces pity pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poetical poetry praiſe purpoſe racter reft Sappho ſcene ſhall ſhe SOAME JENYNS ſpeak ſpread ſpring ſtay ſtill ſtrain ſwain ſweet taſte tears tell tender thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro tivation treaſure Twas uſed vows whofe Whoſe wiſh youth