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... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
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... verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very ... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , COWLEY 31.
... verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very ... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , COWLEY 31.
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... verses is unwarrantably licentious . Latin poets might as well have introduced a series of iambicks among the heroicks . His next work is the translation of the Art of Poetry ; which has received , in my opinion , not less praise than ...
... verses is unwarrantably licentious . Latin poets might as well have introduced a series of iambicks among the heroicks . His next work is the translation of the Art of Poetry ; which has received , in my opinion , not less praise than ...
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