Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 |
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Pagina 13
... 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 . wit wit If the father of criticism ...
... 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 . wit wit If the father of criticism ...
Pagina 168
... verses is unwarrantably licentious . Latin poets might as well have introduced a series of iambicks among the heroicks . His next work is the translation of the Art of Poetry ; which has received , in my opinion , not less praise than ...
... verses is unwarrantably licentious . Latin poets might as well have introduced a series of iambicks among the heroicks . His next work is the translation of the Art of Poetry ; which has received , in my opinion , not less praise than ...
Pagina 296
... verses , to be delivered by me to the said Jacob Tonson , whereof I have already delivered to him about seven thousand five hundred , more or less ; he the said Jacob Tonson being obliged to make up the foresaid sum of two hundred sixty ...
... verses , to be delivered by me to the said Jacob Tonson , whereof I have already delivered to him about seven thousand five hundred , more or less ; he the said Jacob Tonson being obliged to make up the foresaid sum of two hundred sixty ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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