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Pagina 11
... heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the ...
... heroic numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the ...
Pagina 57
... heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy , and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence , if they are conveyed by words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions , debased by vulgar mouths , and contaminated by inelegant ...
... heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy , and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence , if they are conveyed by words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions , debased by vulgar mouths , and contaminated by inelegant ...
Pagina 58
... heroic poem is less familiar than that of his slightest writ- ings . He has given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tem pestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his ...
... heroic poem is less familiar than that of his slightest writ- ings . He has given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tem pestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his ...
Pagina 59
... heroic lines are often formed of monosylla- bles ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and so- norous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In ...
... heroic lines are often formed of monosylla- bles ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and so- norous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In ...
Pagina 61
... heroic of ten syllables ; and from him Dryden bor- rowed the practice , whether ornamental or licen- tious . He considered the verse of twelve sylla- bles as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he ...
... heroic of ten syllables ; and from him Dryden bor- rowed the practice , whether ornamental or licen- tious . He considered the verse of twelve sylla- bles as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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