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... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modula- tion was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modula- tion was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
Pagina 63
... verses with the original . Holyday had nothing in view but to show that he understood his author , with so little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his numbers , that his metres can hardly be called verses ...
... verses with the original . Holyday had nothing in view but to show that he understood his author , with so little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his numbers , that his metres can hardly be called verses ...
Pagina 335
... verses in the morning , and pass the day in retrenching exuberances and correcting inaccura- cies . The method of Pope , as may be collected from his translation , was to write his first thoughts in his first words , and gradually to ...
... verses in the morning , and pass the day in retrenching exuberances and correcting inaccura- cies . The method of Pope , as may be collected from his translation , was to write his first thoughts in his first words , and gradually to ...
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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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