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" The tone should not be pitched high ; it should be idiomatic, and rather in the conversational key ; the rhythm should be crisp and sparkling, and the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire poem should be marked by tasteful moderation, high... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 56
edited by - 1922
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The Living Age, Volume 244

1905 - 864 pages
..."lightness of touch." Locker-Lampson himself, who had a right to speak, says that in occasional verse "the rhythm should be crisp and sparkling, and the...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness." As his "London Lyrics"— recently republlshed in their final form, with an introduction by Mr. Austin...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 123

1874 - 898 pages
...playful. The tone should not be pitched high, and it should be idiomatic, the rhythm crisp and sparkling, the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness ; for however trivial the subject matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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Temple Bar, Volume 61

1881 - 588 pages
...tone should not be pitched high, and the language should be idiomatic, the rhythm crisp and sparkling, the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness, for however trivial the subject matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 380 pages
...distinguished by chastened sentiment, and often playful. The tone should not be pitched high ; it should be idiomatic, and rather in the conversational key ;...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness : for, however trivial the subject-matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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Appletons' Journal, Volume 14

1875 - 854 pages
...distinguished by chastened sentiment, and often playful. The tone should not be pitched high ; it should be idiomatic, and rather in the conversational key ;...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness ; for, however trivial the subject-matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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London Lyrics, Issue 308

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1872 - 230 pages
...playful. The tone should not be pitched high, and it should be idiomatic, the rhythm crisp and sparkling, the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness, for however trivial the subject matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 140

1874 - 614 pages
...The tone should not be pitched ' high, and it should be idiomatic, the rhythm crisp and spark' ling, the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness ; for however trivial the subject matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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Poets and Novelists: A Series of Literary Studies

George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 458 pages
...playful. The tone should not be pitched high, and it should be idiomatic, the rhythm crisp and sparkling, the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness ; for however trivial the subject matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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Vers de Société

1875 - 432 pages
...the conversational key ; the rhythm should be crisp and sparkling, and the rhyme frequent and nerver forced, while the entire poem should be marked by tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness ; for, however trivial the subject-matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1876 - 828 pages
...should not be pitched high, and tin' language should be idiomatic, the rhythm crisp and sparkling, the rhyme frequent and never forced, while the entire...tasteful moderation, high finish, and completeness ; for however trivial the subject matter may be, indeed rather in proportion to its triviality, subordination...
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