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... kind of writing in verse , it can be adapted only to high and noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet with the critick , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to ...
... kind of writing in verse , it can be adapted only to high and noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet with the critick , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to ...
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... kind of writing , which , though prosaick in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and Panther , the ...
... kind of writing , which , though prosaick in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and Panther , the ...
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... kind assistance yield , Your gifts I sing ! and thou , at whose fear'd stroke From rending earth the fiery courser broke , Great Neptune , O assist my artful song ! And thou to whom the woods and groves belong , Whose snowy heifers on ...
... kind assistance yield , Your gifts I sing ! and thou , at whose fear'd stroke From rending earth the fiery courser broke , Great Neptune , O assist my artful song ! And thou to whom the woods and groves belong , Whose snowy heifers on ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote