Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 115
... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to ...
... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to ...
Pagina 335
... excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal to the first stanza of ...
... excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal to the first stanza of ...
Pagina 463
... excellence of a translator , such as may be read with pleasure by those who do not know the originals . His poetry is polished and pure ; the product of a mind too judicious to commit faults , but not suffi- ciently vigorous to attain ...
... excellence of a translator , such as may be read with pleasure by those who do not know the originals . His poetry is polished and pure ; the product of a mind too judicious to commit faults , but not suffi- ciently vigorous to attain ...
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