Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 38
... numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and con- tinuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he ...
... numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and con- tinuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he ...
Pagina 146
... numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by their native excellence secure themselves from violation , being such as mean language cannot express . The mode of versification has been blamed by Dryden , who ...
... numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by their native excellence secure themselves from violation , being such as mean language cannot express . The mode of versification has been blamed by Dryden , who ...
Pagina 223
... numbers indeed , but imitates them very injudiciously . Deformity is easily copied ; and whatever there is in Milton which the reader wishes way , all that is obsolete , peculiar , or licentious , is accu- nulated with great care by ...
... numbers indeed , but imitates them very injudiciously . Deformity is easily copied ; and whatever there is in Milton which the reader wishes way , all that is obsolete , peculiar , or licentious , is accu- nulated with great care by ...
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