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Pagina 63
... poetical trans- lations of Ancient Writers ; a work which the French seem to relinquish in despair , and which we were long unable to perform with dexterity . Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham ...
... poetical trans- lations of Ancient Writers ; a work which the French seem to relinquish in despair , and which we were long unable to perform with dexterity . Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham ...
Pagina 89
... poetical ratiocina- tion , in which the argument suffers little from the metre . In the poem on The Birth of the Prince of Wales nothing is very remarkable but the exorbitant adula- tion , and that insensibility of the precipice on ...
... poetical ratiocina- tion , in which the argument suffers little from the metre . In the poem on The Birth of the Prince of Wales nothing is very remarkable but the exorbitant adula- tion , and that insensibility of the precipice on ...
Pagina 386
... poetical as it was more remote from common use : finding in Dryden " honey redolent of spring , " an impression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension by making " gales ...
... poetical as it was more remote from common use : finding in Dryden " honey redolent of spring , " an impression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension by making " gales ...
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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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