[73] De Selincourt notes that these adverbs are usually formed from present participles. (Poems of John Keats, p. 577.)
[74] Byron, Letters and Journals, III, p. 418.
“For ever since Pope spoiled the ears of the town
With his cuckoo-song verses, half up and half down,
There has been such a doling and sameness,—by Jove,
I’d as soon have gone down to see Kemble in love.”
(Feast of the Poets.)
Hunt calls Pope’s translation of the moonlight picture from Homer “a gorgeous misrepresentation” (Ibid., p. 35) and the whole translation “that elegant mistake of his in two volumes octavo.” (Foliage, p. 32.)
[76] Feast of the Poets, p. 38. The same opinions are expressed in The Examiner of June 1, 1817; in the preface to Foliage, 1818.
[77] Ibid., p. 56.
[78] P. 23.
[79] Saintsbury, Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860, p. 220.
[80] Hunt, Story of Rimini, London, 1818, p. 11, 200 lines beginning with top of page. In the 1742 lines of the poem, there are 47 run-on couplets and 260 run-on lines. There are 7 Alexandrines and 21 triplets. In the edition of 1832 the number of triplets has been increased to 26. There are 46 double rhymes. In a study of the cæsura based on the first 200 lines there are 70 medial, 17 double cæsuras. The remaining 113 lines have irregular or double cæsura.