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Pagina 107
... diligence . The books in which his daughter , who used to read to him , representing him as most delighting , after Homer , which he could almost repeat , were Ovid's ' Meta- morphoses ' and Euripides . His Euripides is , by Mr ...
... diligence . The books in which his daughter , who used to read to him , representing him as most delighting , after Homer , which he could almost repeat , were Ovid's ' Meta- morphoses ' and Euripides . His Euripides is , by Mr ...
Pagina 132
... diligence , that from his book alone the Art of English Poetry might be learned . After his diction , something must be said of his versifica- tion . The measure , he says , is the English heroick verse without rhyme . Of this mode he ...
... diligence , that from his book alone the Art of English Poetry might be learned . After his diction , something must be said of his versifica- tion . The measure , he says , is the English heroick verse without rhyme . Of this mode he ...
Pagina 307
... diligence , and added facility to exactness . Rhyme has been so long banished from the theatre , that we know not its effect upon the passions of an audience ; but it has this convenience , that sentences stand more independent on each ...
... diligence , and added facility to exactness . Rhyme has been so long banished from the theatre , that we know not its effect upon the passions of an audience ; but it has this convenience , that sentences stand more independent on each ...
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