Littell's Living Age, Volume 128Living Age Company Incorporated, 1876 |
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Page 218
... songs of Sir Thomas Wyatt have a certain manly char- acter of song about them which pleases me , and so have Lovelace's , and Waller's , and Carew's , and Wither's . Ben Jonson always seems formal and stiff in his songs ; and even his ...
... songs of Sir Thomas Wyatt have a certain manly char- acter of song about them which pleases me , and so have Lovelace's , and Waller's , and Carew's , and Wither's . Ben Jonson always seems formal and stiff in his songs ; and even his ...
Page 219
... songs are really singable - as , for in- stance , " Sweet and low . " Belton . Of late song - writers Burns had the truest and most natural gift . Some of his songs are delightful . What could be more sweet and natural than the " Ae ...
... songs are really singable - as , for in- stance , " Sweet and low . " Belton . Of late song - writers Burns had the truest and most natural gift . Some of his songs are delightful . What could be more sweet and natural than the " Ae ...
Page 222
... song . Remember Coleridge's de- scription in his charming poem to the nightingale . Belton . Byron wrote almost nothing which can justly be called a song . They are all rather poems , and what used to be called stanzas ; some of them ...
... song . Remember Coleridge's de- scription in his charming poem to the nightingale . Belton . Byron wrote almost nothing which can justly be called a song . They are all rather poems , and what used to be called stanzas ; some of them ...
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