Omniana or Hor Otiosiores Author:Robert Southey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1812 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-B... more »ooks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Hole's poem, however, could not have suffered from that disgust, because it wa8 published ten years before the swarm of epics appeared ; and I believe it will be thought probable that this swarm was occasioned by the success of Joan of Arc, notwithstanding the great and numerous defects of that poem, defects which have been weeded out in each successive edition, though they never can be totally removed. 48. Poetical Moods and Tenses. Let us examine the moods and tenses of the poets. He who plays off the amiable in ersef and writes to display his own fine feelings, is in the sentimental or indicative mood. Didactic poets are in the imperative, satirists in the potential, your amourist in the optative. The classification is defective in the other moods. The fume of those who write personal satire is in the present tense, .. that ofir. ost poets in the imperfect. The great t. nes who are dead, in the perfect,,.. the great ones who are living must he content to have theirs in the future. 49. Garden at Banstcad Is there any remembrance at Banstead of a clergyman, who amused himself there for fifty years wiih ornamenting his gardens, and died in a state of dotage about the beginning of the last century? The company from Epsom used to visit his ' curiosities,' as they might well call them! for this gentleman had discovered more capabilities in wood and stone, than ever Lancelot Brown dreamt of. You ascended one of his trees by a straight flight of sleps, the top had been flattened in the middle, and the boughs round about clipt into a parapet; her...« less