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Pagina xiii
Johnson , with no such advantage , looked at them directly , and listened to them
with an ear trained on the strict and subtle music of the heroic couplet . In our time
, most readers are deaf to that music . The rhythm of the couplet seems to them ...
Johnson , with no such advantage , looked at them directly , and listened to them
with an ear trained on the strict and subtle music of the heroic couplet . In our time
, most readers are deaf to that music . The rhythm of the couplet seems to them ...
Pagina xix
In the Lives of the seventeenth - century poets , Johnson traced the gradual
ripening and prevailing of the Augustan literary culture . The Lives of Dryden and
Pope celebrate that culture at its resplendent noon . In all English criticism there
is no ...
In the Lives of the seventeenth - century poets , Johnson traced the gradual
ripening and prevailing of the Augustan literary culture . The Lives of Dryden and
Pope celebrate that culture at its resplendent noon . In all English criticism there
is no ...
Pagina xxi
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITIONS The Works of the most Eminent English
Poets , with Prefaces , Biographical and Critical , by Samuel Johnson , LL . D . (
1779 - 81 ) , issued later separately as Lives of the most Eminent English Poets ...
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITIONS The Works of the most Eminent English
Poets , with Prefaces , Biographical and Critical , by Samuel Johnson , LL . D . (
1779 - 81 ) , issued later separately as Lives of the most Eminent English Poets ...
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EARL OF ROCHESTER | 107 |
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