 | 1827 - 684 Seiten
...poets. "I reckon it, "hesays, "among myprincipal advantages, as a composer of verses, that I have net read an English poet these thirteen years, and but one these twenty years. Imitation even of the bust models is my aversion ; it is servile and mechanical ; a trick that has enabled many to usurp... | |
 | 1826 - 440 Seiten
...he thus writes: — "I reckon it among my principal advantages as a composer of verses, that I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and...Imitation even of the best models is my aversion ; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of author, who could not have... | |
 | 1833 - 684 Seiten
...to a correspondent, "I reckon it among my principal advantages as a composer of verses, that I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and...Imitation, even of the best models, is my aversion ; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of author, who could not have... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 Seiten
...thus writes : — ' I reckon it among my principal advantages as a composer of verses, that I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and...Imitation even of the best models is my aversion ; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of author, who could not have... | |
 | 1835 - 440 Seiten
...he thus writes: — "I reckon it amona; my principal advantages as a composer of verses, that 1 have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and...Imitation even of the best models is my aversion ; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of author, who could not have... | |
 | 1920 - 850 Seiten
...reckon it,' he wrote in 1781, 'among my principal advantages, as a composer of verses, that I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and but one these thirty years.' So mild was his interest in his contemporaries that he had never heard Collins's name... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1845 - 404 Seiten
...beft models is my averfion ; it is fervile and mechanical ; a trick that has enabled many to ufurp the name of author, who could not have written at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of fomebody indeed original.' "* * The laft book Conftable had been reading, and on which his attention... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1847 - 454 Seiten
...composer of verses," we find him sayiug, in one of his letters to the younger Unwin, " that I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and...the best models is my aversion. It is servile and mechanical,—a trick that has enabled many to usurp the name of author who could not have written... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 438 Seiten
...composer of verses," we find him saying, in one of his letters to the younger Unwin, '* that I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and...at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of some one indeed original. But when the ear and taste have been much accustomed literary revolution... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 468 Seiten
...composer of verses," we find him saying, in one of his letters to the younger Unwin, " that I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and...at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of some one indeed original. But when the ear and taste have been much accustomed literary revolution... | |
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I reckon it among my principal advantages, as a composer of verses, that I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and but one these twenty years. Imitation, even of the best models, is my aversion ; it is servile and mechanical... 
