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... whole extension of his language , distinguished all the delicacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation . Bossu is of opinion that the poet's ...
... whole extension of his language , distinguished all the delicacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation . Bossu is of opinion that the poet's ...
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... whole perform- ance is not so much a regular fabric , as a heap of shining materials thrown together by accident , which strikes rather with the solemn magnificence of a stupendous ruin , than the elegant grandeur of a finished pile ...
... whole perform- ance is not so much a regular fabric , as a heap of shining materials thrown together by accident , which strikes rather with the solemn magnificence of a stupendous ruin , than the elegant grandeur of a finished pile ...
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... whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practiced , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together ...
... whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practiced , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together ...
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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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