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Pagina 170
... formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He considered the epick as necessarily including some kind of supernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels ...
... formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He considered the epick as necessarily including some kind of supernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels ...
Pagina 204
... formed to reason than to feel . The con- flagration of a city , with all its tumults of concomitant distress , is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can offer to human eyes ; yet it seems to raise little emotion in the ...
... formed to reason than to feel . The con- flagration of a city , with all its tumults of concomitant distress , is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can offer to human eyes ; yet it seems to raise little emotion in the ...
Pagina 228
... formed from dactyls and spondees differently combined ; the English heroick admits of acute or grave syllables variously disposed . The Latin never deviates into seven feet , or exceeds the number of seventeen syllables ; but the ...
... formed from dactyls and spondees differently combined ; the English heroick admits of acute or grave syllables variously disposed . The Latin never deviates into seven feet , or exceeds the number of seventeen syllables ; but the ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote