Identifier: essaysofleighhun00hunt (find matches)
Title: The essays of Leigh Hunt
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945, ed Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew), 1875-1960 illus
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Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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struck us, that a world of time and papermight be saved to the ingenious rimatore, whether Italian orEnglish, by foregoing at once all the superfluous part of hisverses ; that is to say, all the rest of them; and confininghimself, entirely, to these very sufficing terminations. Wesubjoin some specimens in the various kinds of poetry ; andinform the intelligent bookseller, that we are willing to treatwith him for any quantity at a penny a hundred. A Pastors >L. Dawn Each Fair Me Ray Plains Spoke Mine Too Heat Lawn Beech Hair Free Play Swains. Yoke Divine. Woo. Sweet. Tune Fields Shades Adieu Farewell Lays Bowers Darts Flocks Cows Moon Yields Maids Renew Dell Gaze. Flowers. Hearts. Rocks. Boughs. Here, without any more ado, we have the whole history ofa couple of successful rural lovers comparing notes. Theyissue forth in the morning ; fall into the proper place anddialogue ; record the charms and kindness of their respectivemistresses ; do justice at the same time to the fields and
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-J RHYME AND REASON .87 shades ; and conclude by telling their flocks to wait asusual while they renew their addresses under the boughs.How easily is all this gathered from the rhymes! and howworse than useless would it be in two persons, who havesuch interesting avocations, to waste their precious time andthe readers in a heap of prefatory remarks, falsely calledverses ! Of Love-songs we have already had specimens ; and, bythe bye, we did not think it necessary to give any Frenchexamples of our involuntary predecessors in this species ofwriting. The yeux and dangereux, mot andyb/, charmes andlarmes, are too well-known as well as too numerous tomention. We proceed to lay before the reader a Prologue ;which, if spoken by a pretty actress, with a due sprinklingof nods and becks, and a judicious management of thepauses, would have an effect equally novel and triumphant.The reader is aware that a Prologue is generally made upof some observations on the drama in general, followed byan appe

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