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... poetry , that his call is obeyed without resistance , the reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and a nobler mind , and criticism sinks in admiration . Milton's style was not modified by his subject : what is shown with greater ...
... poetry , that his call is obeyed without resistance , the reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and a nobler mind , and criticism sinks in admiration . Milton's style was not modified by his subject : what is shown with greater ...
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... poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so im- perfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the ...
... poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so im- perfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the ...
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... poetry . He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty . What was said of Rome , adorned by Augustus , may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden , lateritiam invenit , marmoream reliquit , he ...
... poetry . He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty . What was said of Rome , adorned by Augustus , may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden , lateritiam invenit , marmoream reliquit , he ...
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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