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Page 48
... sung sweetly ; and ' twas her favor- ite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.— I was not so presumtive as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones , composed by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my ...
... sung sweetly ; and ' twas her favor- ite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.— I was not so presumtive as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones , composed by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my ...
Page 87
... sung before a real Critic , one above the biasses of prejudice , but a thorough Judge of Nature , —how flat & spiritless will the last appear , how trite , and tamely methodical , compared with the wild - warbling cadence , the heart ...
... sung before a real Critic , one above the biasses of prejudice , but a thorough Judge of Nature , —how flat & spiritless will the last appear , how trite , and tamely methodical , compared with the wild - warbling cadence , the heart ...
Page 326
... sung as one syllable will with the greatest propriety divide into two- thus " ( and here he writes out two bars of music ) . The letters are full of such observations as : “ Duncan Gray is that kind of light- horse gallop of an air ...
... sung as one syllable will with the greatest propriety divide into two- thus " ( and here he writes out two bars of music ) . The letters are full of such observations as : “ Duncan Gray is that kind of light- horse gallop of an air ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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