 As if you got more than you'd title to rightfully, And you find yourself hoping its wild father Lightning Would flame in for a second and give you a fright'ning. He has perfect sway of what I call a sham metre, But many admire it, the English pentameter,...  The British Quarterly Review - Page 318redigeeritud poolt - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Henry Allon - 1886 - 618 lehte
...to call the English hexameter (why not pentameter, since the line is decasyllabic or five-footed — the tragic, not the epic metre, shortened to suit...comparison is impossible, he never comes within sight or measureable distance of his supposed rival. The present Lord Lytton in his lighter pieces might furnish... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 lehte
...sham metre, 15ut many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verse, Nor e'er achieved aught in't so worthy of praise As the tribute of Holmes to the grand Marseillaise.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 lehte
...many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse, fright'ning. With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verse, Nor e'er achieved aught in't so worthy of praise As the tribute of Holmes to the grand Marseillaise.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 102 lehte
...a sham metre, But many admire it, the English hexameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse, With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verae, Nor e'er achieved aught in't so worthy of praise . As the tribute of Holmes to the grand Marseillaise.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 334 lehte
...sham metre, But many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse, With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verse, Nor e'er achieved aught in't so worthy of praise As the tribute of Holmes to the grand Marseillaise.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 lehte
...sham metre, But many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse, With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verse, Nor e'er achieved aught in 't so worthy of praise As the tnbute of Holmes to the grand MarseillaiseYou... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 lehte
...sham metre, But many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse, With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verse, Nor e'er achieved aught in 't so worthy of praise As the tribute of Holmes to the grand Marseillaise.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 lehte
...sham metre, But many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse, With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verse, Nor e'er achieved aught in 't so worthy of praise As the tribute of Holmes to the grand Marseillaise.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 lehte
...sham metre, But many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse, With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verse, Xor e'er achieved aught ill Ч so worthy of praise As the tribute of Holmes to the gi-and Marseillaise.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 lehte
...sham metre, But many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse, With less nerve, swing, and fire in the same kind of verse, Nor e'er achieved aught in't so worthy of praise As the tribute of Holmes to the Grand Marseillaise.... | |
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