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Pagina 346
... language has some words framed to exhibit the noises which they express , as thump , rattle , growl , hiss . These , however , are but few ; and the poet cannot make them more , nor can they be of any use but when sound is to be men ...
... language has some words framed to exhibit the noises which they express , as thump , rattle , growl , hiss . These , however , are but few ; and the poet cannot make them more , nor can they be of any use but when sound is to be men ...
Pagina 379
Samuel Johnson. His ode on Spring has something poetical , both in the language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant , and the thoughts have nothing new . There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives derived ...
Samuel Johnson. His ode on Spring has something poetical , both in the language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant , and the thoughts have nothing new . There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives derived ...
Pagina 384
... language is laboured into harshness . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . " Double , double , toil and trouble . " He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . His art and his ...
... language is laboured into harshness . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . " Double , double , toil and trouble . " He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . His art and his ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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