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" Harvey's hexameters in prose, "that drunken, staggering kind of verse, which is all up hill and down hill, like the way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter, now soused up to the saddle,... "
De Bow's Review - Page 369
edited by - 1859
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ...

George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pages
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter — now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes" (in these last words, we suppose, exemplifying the thing he describes and derides). ENGLISH HEXAMETER...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 52

1848 - 476 pages
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter — now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes."* The principal production of his native town, red herrings, furnished Nash's pen with a subject to which...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 52

1848 - 514 pages
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter — now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes."* The principal production of his native town, red herrings, furnished Nash's pen with a subject to which...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 75

1887 - 678 pages
...closes his condemnation of it with an imitation, descriptive of a horse plunging in the mire :— " Now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes." It would appear that Spenser, through the influence of his friend Harvey, thought seriously of experimenting...
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De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc ..., Volume 26

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 pages
...witty and brilliant writer of that day, characterizes it as " that drunken, staggering kind of verso, which is all up hill and down hill ;'' and " like...Europe" as a specimen of sense, if not of smoothness, is fully equal to some of the flights in the "Courtship of Miles Standish :'' " But by the scorched...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 626 pages
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter — now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes" (in those last words, we suppose, exemplifying the thing he describes and derides). ENGLISH HEXAMETER...
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North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal

1875 - 514 pages
...the way betwixt .mford and Beechfield, and poes like a horse plunging through the mire in the leep of winter, now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes." It was a happy thought to satirize (in this inverted way) prose written in the form of verse. " Polyolbion...
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The North American Review, Volume 120

1875 - 508 pages
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter, now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes." It was a happy thought to satirize (in this inverted way) prose written in the form of verse. I" Polyolbion...
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Among My Books: Second Series

James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 344 pages
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter, now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes." It was a happy thought to satirize (in this inverted way) prose written in the form of verse. tation...
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The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson, ed., with ...

Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter, now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tip-toes.'—Have with You to Safron-Walden. Likes and loves so dear, that he melts to sighs when he...
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