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Pagina 63
... number of verses with the original . Holyday had nothing in view but to show that he understood his author , with so little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his numbers , that his metres can hardly be called ...
... number of verses with the original . Holyday had nothing in view but to show that he understood his author , with so little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his numbers , that his metres can hardly be called ...
Pagina 170
... numbers were im- mediately dispersed , and editions were multiplied with unusual rapidity . One circumstance attended the publication which Savage used to relate with great satisfaction . His mother , to whom the poem was with “ due ...
... numbers were im- mediately dispersed , and editions were multiplied with unusual rapidity . One circumstance attended the publication which Savage used to relate with great satisfaction . His mother , to whom the poem was with “ due ...
Pagina 270
... numbers every light . The conscious swains rejoicing at the sight shepherds gazing with delight Eye the blue vault ... number ; but most other readers are already tired , and I am not writing only to poets and philosophers . The Iliad ...
... numbers every light . The conscious swains rejoicing at the sight shepherds gazing with delight Eye the blue vault ... number ; but most other readers are already tired , and I am not writing only to poets and philosophers . The Iliad ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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