Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1977 - 461 pagina's |
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Pagina 115
... diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth . They ...
... diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth . They ...
Pagina 146
... diction of this poem is grossly familiar , and the numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by their native excellence secure themselves from violation , being such as mean language cannot express . The ...
... diction of this poem is grossly familiar , and the numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by their native excellence secure themselves from violation , being such as mean language cannot express . The ...
Pagina 428
... diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of senti- ment that animates diction : there is little of ardour , vehemence , or transport ; there is very rarely the awful- ness of grandeur , and not very often the splendour ...
... diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of senti- ment that animates diction : there is little of ardour , vehemence , or transport ; there is very rarely the awful- ness of grandeur , and not very often the splendour ...
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