 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - 582 pages
...in his preface that it was a duty incumbent on 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1858 - 740 pages
...and the most fortunate of his works, — • " It seems to be a kind of duty incumbent on those \>lio devote themselves to poetry, to raise, if possible,...as the limits of composition and the character of modem times will allow. The ages indeed are past, in which the 7 Of this Essay it is that Gibbon snys... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 366 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 of...composition and the character of modern times will allow." Although the ages, he regretted to reflect, were past, in which poetry was idolized for miraculous... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1906 - 366 pages
...those who devote themselves to poetry to render a powerful and too often a perverted art as benef1cial to life and manners as the limits of composition and the character of modern times will allow." Although the ages, he regretted to reflect, were past, in which poetry was idolized for miraculous... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1926 - 462 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 of...composition and the character of modern times will allow.' Although the ages, he regretted to reflect, were past, in which poetry was idolised for miraculous... | |
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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. 
