Word: cramping
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With no desire to limit or cramp the poet's inspiration, a few suggestions may not be out of place, as the music will be composed for the words, and not selected. Let the character of the words be cheerful and spirited as far as possible, and not melancholy or retrospective. Do not make the poem or the stanzas too long. Several metres and examples are appended from which it is desired that the metre of the poem be chosen. Remember that the song is to be sung by nearly two hundred voices; simplicity of expression and metre are therefore...
...cease to cramp our much-enduring knees...
...stand high among nations in literary attainments, tell us that nothing is so prolific as a little known well. It is not necessary that one should confine himself to one book, or class of books, in order to do justice to the subject, for this would be to cramp the mind and fit it for only one channel; though it were better to be a man of one book and know that well, than to wander through the various authors, gleaning here a little and there a little, but neglecting the great value of a thorough study of their works...