Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 132
... English Poetry might be learned . After his diction , something must be said of his versifica- tion . The measure , he says , is the English heroick verse without rhyme . Of this mode he had many examples among the Italians , and some ...
... English Poetry might be learned . After his diction , something must be said of his versifica- tion . The measure , he says , is the English heroick verse without rhyme . Of this mode he had many examples among the Italians , and some ...
Pagina 287
... English genera- tion must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition ...
... English genera- tion must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition ...
Pagina 336
... English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr. Rymer has done . is After all , we need not yield that the English way less conducing to move pity and terror , because they often ...
... English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr. Rymer has done . is After all , we need not yield that the English way less conducing to move pity and terror , because they often ...
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