Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 472 pagina's |
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Pagina xi
... rhyme , and poetry was read and dis- cussed with avidity . We have , therefore , in Johnson's critical judgements the finest expression of its kind uttered in and approved by a generation of men most eagerly interested in the literary ...
... rhyme , and poetry was read and dis- cussed with avidity . We have , therefore , in Johnson's critical judgements the finest expression of its kind uttered in and approved by a generation of men most eagerly interested in the literary ...
Pagina xiv
... rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment . Yet , even if he prefers Akenside's blank verse to that of any other poet , his keen ear ...
... rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment . Yet , even if he prefers Akenside's blank verse to that of any other poet , his keen ear ...
Pagina 13
... rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting ...
... rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting ...
Pagina 15
... rhyme , and volubility of syllables . In perusing the works of this race of authors , the mind is exercised either by recollection or inquiry ; either something already learned is to be retrieved , or some- thing new is to be examined ...
... rhyme , and volubility of syllables . In perusing the works of this race of authors , the mind is exercised either by recollection or inquiry ; either something already learned is to be retrieved , or some- thing new is to be examined ...
Pagina 35
... rhyming prose : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide than own the obligation : Nay , ' tis much worse than so ; It now an artifice does grow Wrongs ...
... rhyming prose : But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide than own the obligation : Nay , ' tis much worse than so ; It now an artifice does grow Wrongs ...
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