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... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
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... 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 verses ...
... 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 verses ...
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... verses was his first labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never di- verted . If conversation offered anything that could be improved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an ...
... verses was his first labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never di- verted . If conversation offered anything that could be improved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an ...
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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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