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Pagina 38
... reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruc- tion , retire harassed and overburdened , and look ...
... reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruc- tion , retire harassed and overburdened , and look ...
Pagina 96
... reader may be weary , though the critic may commend . Works of imagination excel by their al- lurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . He ...
... reader may be weary , though the critic may commend . Works of imagination excel by their al- lurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . He ...
Pagina 107
... reader with two syllables more than he expected . The effect of the triplet is the same ; the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet , but is on a sudden surprised with three rhymes together , to which the reader ...
... reader with two syllables more than he expected . The effect of the triplet is the same ; the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet , but is on a sudden surprised with three rhymes together , to which the reader ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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