The Lives of the English PoetsBernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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... language , but fills a great part of the " Musę Anglicana . " Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was presented to the King , by whom it was not ...
... language , but fills a great part of the " Musę Anglicana . " Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was presented to the King , by whom it was not ...
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... language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion proceeded from accident or imitation , is not easy to determine . Tickell might ...
... language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion proceeded from accident or imitation , is not easy to determine . Tickell might ...
Pagina 13
... language easy , but seldom gross , and the numbers smooth , without appearance of care . Of these Tales there are only four . " The Ladle ; " which is introduced by a preface , neither necessary nor pleasing , neither grave nor merry ...
... language easy , but seldom gross , and the numbers smooth , without appearance of care . Of these Tales there are only four . " The Ladle ; " which is introduced by a preface , neither necessary nor pleasing , neither grave nor merry ...
Pagina 16
... language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions ...
... language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions ...
Pagina 17
... of any among the successors of Dryden ; he borrows no lucky turns , or com- modious modes of language , from his predecessors . His phra- 2 Johnson's Lives . II . ses are original , but they are sometimes harsh : PRIOR . 17.
... of any among the successors of Dryden ; he borrows no lucky turns , or com- modious modes of language , from his predecessors . His phra- 2 Johnson's Lives . II . ses are original , but they are sometimes harsh : PRIOR . 17.
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