 | William Cowper - 1803 - 456 pages
...rarely to be found, except where a subject is not only intimately known, but cordially loved ; these I conceive are the features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which must of course give to his strains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1804 - 694 pages
...words acquire the trued character of eloquence, and which is rarely to be found, except where a fubjeft is not only intimately known, but cordially loved...muft of courfe give to his ftrains a perfection of effeci never to be attained by the poet of inferior moral endowments. " I believe it will be readily... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...acquire the trueft character of eloquence, and which is rarely to be found, except where a fubjeft is not only intimately known, but cordially loved...features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which nr. i li of courfe give to his ftrains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 222 pages
...be found, except where a subject is not on!) most intimately known, but cordially loved ; these, 1 conceive, are the features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which must, of course, give to his strains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 486 pages
...is rarely to be found, except where a subject is not intimately known, bnt cordially loved ; these I conceive are the features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which must of course give to his strains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 472 pages
...which is rarely to be found, except where a subject is not intimately known, but cordiallyloved ; these I conceive are the features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which must of course give to his strains 440 a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812 - 446 pages
...are the features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which must of course give to his strains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior moral «ndowments. - • 410 " I believe it will be readily granted, that all these qualities were never... | |
 | William Hayley - 1812 - 450 pages
...rarely to be found, except where a subject is not only intimately known, but cordially loved; these I conceive are the features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which must of course give to his strains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...are the features peculiar to a real votary of virtue, and which must of course give to his strains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the...of inferior moral endowments. I believe it will be granted that all these qualities were never more perfectly combined than in the poetry of Milton. And... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...rarely to be found except where a subject is not only intimately known, but cordially loved ; these, I conceive, are the features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which must of course give to his strains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior... | |
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... these, I conceive, are the features peculiar to the real votary of virtue, and which must of course give to his strains a perfection of effect never to be attained by the poet of inferior moral endowments. 
