 Harvey's hexameters in prose, "that drunken, staggering kind of verse, which is all up hill and down hill, like the way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter, now soused up to the saddle,...  De Bow's Review - Side 369redigeret af - 1859Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 sider
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter — now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes" (in these last words, we suppose, exemplifying the thing he describes and derides). ENGLISH HEXAMETER... | |
 | 1848 - 476 sider
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter — now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes."* The principal production of his native town, red herrings, furnished Nash's pen with a subject to which... | |
 | 1848 - 514 sider
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter — now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes."* The principal production of his native town, red herrings, furnished Nash's pen with a subject to which... | |
 | 1887 - 678 sider
...closes his condemnation of it with an imitation, descriptive of a horse plunging in the mire :— " Now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes." It would appear that Spenser, through the influence of his friend Harvey, thought seriously of experimenting... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 sider
...witty and brilliant writer of that day, characterizes it as " that drunken, staggering kind of verso, which is all up hill and down hill ;'' and " like...Europe" as a specimen of sense, if not of smoothness, is fully equal to some of the flights in the "Courtship of Miles Standish :'' " But by the scorched... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 626 sider
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter — now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes" (in those last words, we suppose, exemplifying the thing he describes and derides). ENGLISH HEXAMETER... | |
 | 1875 - 514 sider
...the way betwixt .mford and Beechfield, and poes like a horse plunging through the mire in the leep of winter, now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes." It was a happy thought to satirize (in this inverted way) prose written in the form of verse. " Polyolbion... | |
 | 1875 - 508 sider
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter, now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes." It was a happy thought to satirize (in this inverted way) prose written in the form of verse. I" Polyolbion... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 344 sider
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter, now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tiptoes." It was a happy thought to satirize (in this inverted way) prose written in the form of verse. tation... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 sider
...way betwixt Stamford and Beechfield, and goes like a horse plunging through the mire in the deep of winter, now soused up to the saddle, and straight aloft on his tip-toes.'—Have with You to Safron-Walden. Likes and loves so dear, that he melts to sighs when he... | |
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