 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...  The Annual Register - Page 191796Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the (rial 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... | |
 | 1841 - 360 pages
...imagery, and affected diction. Dr. Johnson, in his Life of Oowley, observes that their verses " stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were found to be verses only by counting the syllables." Even that degree of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...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 - 1854 - 468 pages
...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 - 596 pages
...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...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 - 586 pages
...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 - 584 pages
...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... | |
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