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Pagina 80
... rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in blank verse ; particularly one tending to ... rhyme , was de- sirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no necessary ...
... rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in blank verse ; particularly one tending to ... rhyme , was de- sirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no necessary ...
Pagina 81
... rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself . Blank verse makes some ap- proach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
... rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself . Blank verse makes some ap- proach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
Pagina 137
... rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with sufficient cer- tainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the Indian Queen , a tragedy in rhyme ...
... rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with sufficient cer- tainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the Indian Queen , a tragedy in rhyme ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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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