Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 |
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... rhyme . Of this mode he had many examples among the Italians , and some in his own country . The Earl of Surrey is said to have translated one of Virgil's books without rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had ...
... rhyme . Of this mode he had many examples among the Italians , and some in his own country . The Earl of Surrey is said to have translated one of Virgil's books without rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had ...
Pagina 133
... rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself . Blank verse makes some approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
... rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself . Blank verse makes some approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
Pagina 204
... rhymes are sometimes weak words : so is found to make the rhyme twice in ten lines , and occurs often as a rhyme through his book . His double rhymes , in heroick verse , have been cen- sured by Mrs. Phillips , who was his rival in the ...
... rhymes are sometimes weak words : so is found to make the rhyme twice in ten lines , and occurs often as a rhyme through his book . His double rhymes , in heroick verse , have been cen- sured by Mrs. Phillips , who was his rival in the ...
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Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton ... Samuel Johnson Fragmentweergave - 1952 |
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