 I am convinced, by the way, that he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever anything so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lost ? It is like that of a fine organ ; has the...  The Irish Metropolitan Magazine. ... - Page 5631858Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no ear for...prejudice against the harmony of Milton's; was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lost ? It is like that of a tine organ ; has the... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced, by the way, that he has no ear for...prejudice against the harmony of Milton's ; was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lost ? It is like that of a fine organ ; has the... | |
 | 1805 - 762 pages
...the fweetnefs or the numbers, the clailicat fpirit of antiquity that prcvaile in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was flopped by prejudice againit the harmony of Milton's ; was there ever any thing fo delightful as the... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 756 pages
...the fweetnefs of the numbers, the claflkat fpirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was flopped by prejudice againil the harmony of Milton's ; was there ever, any thing fo delightful as the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 pages
...the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity, that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no ear for...prejudice, against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lost ? It is like that of a fine organ; has the... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...the sweetuess of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity, that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced, by the way, that he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped, hy prejudice, against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing no delightful as the music... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1817 - 324 pages
...the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no ear for...prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lost? It is like that of a tine organ ; has the... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no ear for...prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lostl It is like that of a fine organ; has the... | |
 | Theology - 1820 - 688 pages
...spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no •Mr for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's ; was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lost ? It is like that of a fine organ ; has the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. urged, The valley to a shining mountain swells, Tipp'd with a wreath high-curling •topped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the... | |
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