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Pagina xiv
'Poetry,' he says, 'is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to
the help of reason. ... For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse; for this
reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style, of monotony, of a lack of variety
in ...
'Poetry,' he says, 'is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to
the help of reason. ... For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse; for this
reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style, of monotony, of a lack of variety
in ...
Pagina 132
The Earl of Surrey is said to have translated one of Virgil's books without rhyme;
and, besides our tragedies, a few short poems had appeared in blank verse;
particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon
Guiana ...
The Earl of Surrey is said to have translated one of Virgil's books without rhyme;
and, besides our tragedies, a few short poems had appeared in blank verse;
particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon
Guiana ...
Pagina 133
But perhaps, of poetry as a mental operation, metre or musick is no necessary
adjunct: it is however by the musick of metre ... The variety of pauses, so much
boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to
the ...
But perhaps, of poetry as a mental operation, metre or musick is no necessary
adjunct: it is however by the musick of metre ... The variety of pauses, so much
boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to
the ...
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