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His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes The Mask of Peleus and Thetis has here and there a pretty line; but it is not always melodious, and the conclusion is wretched In his British Enchanters he has bidden defiance to all chronology, by confounding the inconsistent manners of different ages; but the dialogue has often the air of Dryden's rhyming plays; and the songs are lively, though not very correct.— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
But it is his fluent, melodious, and unpretentious verse that has made him popular in Punch Reginald Shirley Brooks, the son of Mr. Burnand's brilliant predecessor, was working for Punch in 1880, and the following year he was called to the Table, and remained there without much distinction until 1884.— The History of "Punch"
As the first half of the poem is morose yet melodious, the latter is bright with ecstasy; the ending is of the deepest tenderness By all odds the best of these choruses, however, is "The Legend of the Bended Bow," a fine war-chant by Mrs. Hemans. Tradition tells that in ancient Britain the people were summoned to war by messengers who carried a bended bow; the poem tells of the various patriots approached.— Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
Their voices are not very melodious, and they remind me of the responses of a charity school at church.— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

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