 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 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... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 384 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 - 1905 - 530 pages
...in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only Aj^ 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. v If the father of criticism... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 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... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, John Oldmixon, Alfred Slater West - 2016 - 196 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. ' If the father of... | |
 | 1861 - 590 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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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... 
