The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those Provinces ... |
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Page 406
... Elfrida , published in 1752 . * Elfrida is very , very far from a contemptible piece of workmanship : it is manifestly the production of a scholar and a gentleman , of an ardent lover of poetry , and platonic inamorato of abstract ...
... Elfrida , published in 1752 . * Elfrida is very , very far from a contemptible piece of workmanship : it is manifestly the production of a scholar and a gentleman , of an ardent lover of poetry , and platonic inamorato of abstract ...
Page 414
... Elfrida with a wish , at least , that it might be represented ; for there is no possible reason why a poem in dialogue , interspersed with lyrics , having a beginning , middle , and end , if written for the closet , should be more ...
... Elfrida with a wish , at least , that it might be represented ; for there is no possible reason why a poem in dialogue , interspersed with lyrics , having a beginning , middle , and end , if written for the closet , should be more ...
Page 416
... a personal friend , of Mason . Had his translation and commentary existed when the Elfrida was published , Mason would have altered many things in his epistles . that a perfect unity may be attained , though the 416 WILLIAM MASON .
... a personal friend , of Mason . Had his translation and commentary existed when the Elfrida was published , Mason would have altered many things in his epistles . that a perfect unity may be attained , though the 416 WILLIAM MASON .
Page 417
... Elfrida ” appeared in 1751 , " Caractacus " in 1759 , and Mason's genius grew won- derfully in those eight years . His " Elfrida " labours under the disadvantage of an ill - chosen story : a story scarcely familiar or important enough ...
... Elfrida ” appeared in 1751 , " Caractacus " in 1759 , and Mason's genius grew won- derfully in those eight years . His " Elfrida " labours under the disadvantage of an ill - chosen story : a story scarcely familiar or important enough ...
Page 418
... Elfrida , without an attempt to disguise its manifest absurdity . Orgar , the father of the heroine , appears on the ... Elfrida's waiting maids , the companions of her solitude ; whereupon , not to interrupt their harmony , he gets ...
... Elfrida , without an attempt to disguise its manifest absurdity . Orgar , the father of the heroine , appears on the ... Elfrida's waiting maids , the companions of her solitude ; whereupon , not to interrupt their harmony , he gets ...
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