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... English heroick line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost , unless all the syllables of every line co - operate together : this co - opera- tion can be only obtained by the preservation of every verse unmingled with another ...
... English heroick line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost , unless all the syllables of every line co - operate together : this co - opera- tion can be only obtained by the preservation of every verse unmingled with another ...
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... English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition . Of ...
... English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition . Of ...
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Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. in the English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr Rymer has done . ' After all , we need not yield that the English way is less con- ducing to move ...
Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. in the English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr Rymer has done . ' After all , we need not yield that the English way is less con- ducing to move ...
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