 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pages
...duty,' fays Mr. Hayley, * incumbent on thofe who devote themfelves to poetry, toraife, if poffible, the dignity of a declining art, by making it as beneficial to life and manners as the limits of compofuion, and the character of modern times, will allow.' In conformity with this fentiment, this... | |
 | William Hayley - 1781 - 192 pages
...feems to be a kind of duty incumbent on thofe who devote themfelves to Poetry, to raife, if poffible, the dignity of a declining Art, by making it as beneficial to Life and Manners as the limits of Compofition, and the charac* ter of modern Times will allow : The ages, indeed, are paft, in which... | |
 | William Hayley - 1785 - 276 pages
...Tfeems to be a kind of duty incumbent on thofe who devote themfehes to Poetry, to raife, if pojjible, the dignity of a declining Art, by making it as beneficial to Life and Manners as the limits of Compofition, and the character of modern Times will allow : The ages, indeed, are pajl, in which the... | |
 | William Hayley - 1785 - 358 pages
...feems to be a kind of duty incumbent on thofe who devote themfelves to Poetry, to raife, if poflible, the dignity of a declining Art, by making it as beneficial to Life and Manners as the limits of Compofition, and the character of modern Times will allow : The ages, indeed, are paft, in which the... | |
 | William Hayley - 1796 - 216 pages
...feems to be a kind of duty incumbent on thofe who devote themfelves to poetry, to raife, if poflible, the dignity of a declining art, by making it as beneficial to life and manners as the limits of compofition, and the charafter of modern times, will allow. The ages, indeed, are paft, in which the... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 206 pages
...CHICHESTER : Frir.tcd by J, Scagravc ; FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND, LONDON, 1S03. PREFACE. IT seems to be a kind of duty incumbent on those who...and manners as the limits of composition, and the chara&er of modern times, will allow. The ages, indeed, are past, in which the song of the poet was... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 194 pages
...to be a kind of duty Incumbent on thofe \vh<v devote themfelyes to -poetry, to raife, if poffible, the dignity of a declining art, by making it as beneficial to life and manners, as tte limits. of competition, and the charafter of modern time?,will allow. The ages, indeed, are part,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1812 - 188 pages
...CADELL, AND W.biVlES,STRANfa, THENEWYORK PUBLi C LIBRARY ASTOT LENOX AND FOUNDATIONS. 1897. PREFACE. IT seems to be a kind of duty incumbent on those, who...as the limits of composition, and the character of modem times, will allow. The ages indeed, are past, in which the song of the poet was idolized for... | |
 | William Hayley - 1817 - 190 pages
...incumbent on those, who devote themselves to poetry, to render a powerful, and too often a perverted, art as beneficial to life, and manners, as the limits...the character of modern times, will allow. The ages indeedj are past, in which the song of the poet was idolized for its miraculous effects ; yet a poem,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 pages
...in his preface that it was a duty incumbent oh those who made poetry the business of their lives, ' to raise if possible the dignity of a declining art,...composition and the character of modern times will allow :' and he had expressed hopes that his poem might prove of some service to society, by inducing his... | |
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... the dignity of a declining art, by making it as beneficial to life and manners as the limits of composition, and the character of modern times will allow. 
