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Who knows what rhyme and reason are written there, what subtile wisdom rounded into this small curve, repeated on the breasts and backs of the birds, their own notes, it may be, photographed on their swelling breasts like the musical notes on the harp-shell, written in bright, almost audible colors on the petals of flowers, harmonies, melodies, for ear and eye?
The Banbury cross has been immortalized in nursery-rhymes, but it was taken down by the Puritans. The rhyme tells the little folk. "Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady ride on a white horse; With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes." Diligent research has developed some important information about this fine lady.
It is well for the Reverend Author that it is so. Individuality is, in his theory, the only definition of poetry. Whatever is, he hitches into rhyme. Whoever makes an exact image of any thing on the earth, however deformed or insignificant, according to him, must succeed and he himself has succeeded. Mr. Crabbe is one of the most popular and admired of our living authors.
Had he become a country gentleman in England, or a soldier, like his father, should we not still have had 'The Rhyme of Joyous Garde, 'The Romance of Britomarte, 'By Flood and Field, and 'How we beat the Favourite. And do these not form the majority of his best poems?
But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. They do it without regard to rhyme or reason. Both the cases I have just mentioned are instances in point.
For the sake of the vitality of the drama I tried to join the arias and choruses, which generally followed immediately upon each other without rhyme or reason, by connecting links, prologues and epilogues. In this I did my best, by the use of Gluck's themes, to make the interpolations of a strange composer as unnoticeable as possible.
N.B. At night I fell asleep, and the oil dropped from the lamp upon my manuscript. Will this extreme unction make it go smoothly down with the public? Thus idly we "profane the sacred time" By silly prose, light jest, and lighter rhyme. I have a song to write, too, and I am not thinking of it. I trust it will come upon me at once a sort of catch it should be.
As soon as I espied the confectioner's light paper bag I guessed its contents, and, springing from my dignified station, seized on the tarts as if I had been the notorious knave of the nursery rhyme. "There now, Macdonald, I told you so!" quoth Mr.
Here was a sense of rhythm, and an effort in the direction of rhyme; here was an honest transcript of an occurrence of daily life, told with a certain idealizing expression, recognizing the existence of impulses, mysterious instincts, impelling us even in the selection of our bodily sustenance.
But skill in writing verse was not merely a social gift; it came near to being a test of fitness for office. "In their poetry above everything the Japanese have remained impervious to alien influences. It owes this conservation to its prosody. Without rhyme, without variety of metre, without elasticity of dimensions, it is also without known counterpart.
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