Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina xiv
... reason he prefers 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 ...
... reason he prefers 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 ...
Pagina 340
... reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the ...
... reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the ...
Pagina 424
... reason doubt that he suffered too much pain from the prevalence of Pope's poetical reputation ; nor is it without strong reason suspected that by some disingenuous acts he en deavoured to obstruct it ; Pope was not the only man whom he ...
... reason doubt that he suffered too much pain from the prevalence of Pope's poetical reputation ; nor is it without strong reason suspected that by some disingenuous acts he en deavoured to obstruct it ; Pope was not the only man whom he ...
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