The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 52
... blank verse . " Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The ... verses , which , since Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are ...
... blank verse . " Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The ... verses , which , since Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are ...
Pagina 117
... verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words foreign ... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Ralegh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and ...
... verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words foreign ... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Ralegh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and ...
Pagina 118
... blank verse easier than rhyme , was desirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says ... verse unmingled with another as a distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by ...
... blank verse easier than rhyme , was desirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says ... verse unmingled with another as a distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by ...
Pagina 143
... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem A frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose , that ...
... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem A frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose , that ...
Pagina 197
... poem on " Cider , " written in imitation of the " Georgics , " may m be given this peculiar praise , that it is ... blank verse , and supposed that. * This ode I am willing to mention , because there seems to be an error in all the ...
... poem on " Cider , " written in imitation of the " Georgics , " may m be given this peculiar praise , that it is ... blank verse , and supposed that. * This ode I am willing to mention , because there seems to be an error in all the ...
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