Excerpt from Some Undergraduate Poems May I be permitted to add a few words with regard to the Poetry. 9 Then I will speak to those who are judges thereof, with all freedom and unreserve. To these I may say without offence (1) in these hymns there is no doggerel; no botches; nothing put in to patch up the rhyme; no feeble expletives. (2) Here is nothing turgid or bombast, on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. (3) Here are no cant expressions; no words with out meaning. Those who impute this to us know not what ...
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Excerpt from Some Undergraduate Poems May I be permitted to add a few words with regard to the Poetry. 9 Then I will speak to those who are judges thereof, with all freedom and unreserve. To these I may say without offence (1) in these hymns there is no doggerel; no botches; nothing put in to patch up the rhyme; no feeble expletives. (2) Here is nothing turgid or bombast, on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. (3) Here are no cant expressions; no words with out meaning. Those who impute this to us know not what they say. We talk common sense, both in prose and verse, and use no words but in a fixt and deter minate sense. (4) Here are (allow me to say) both the purity, the strength, and the elegance of the English Lan guage and at the same time the utmost simplicity and plainness, suited' to every capacity. Lastly, I desire men of taste to judge, (these are the only competent judges, ) whether there be not in some of the following Hymns the true Spirit of Poetry, such as cannot be acquired by art or labour, but must be the gift of nature. By labour a man may become a tolerable imitator of Spenser, Shake speare, or Milton, and may heap together pretty com pound epithets, as pale-eyed, meek-eyed, and the like; but unless he be born a Poet, he will never attain the genuine Spirit of Poetry. - John Wesley, in his preface to A Collection of Hymns, 1779. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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