Excerpt from Philip Van Artevelde, Vol. 1 of 2: A Dramatic Romance These poets were characterised by great sen sibility and fervour, by a profusion of imagery, by force and beauty of language, and by a versix fication peculiarly easy and adroit, and abound ing in that sort of melody, which, by its very obvious cadences, makes itself most pleasing to an unpractised ear. They exhibited, therefore, many of the most attractive graces and charms of poetry - its vital warmth not less than its ex ternal embellishments; and had not the admi ration which they excited, tended to produce an indifference to higher, graver, and more various endowments, no one would have said that it was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.