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... words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be ad- mired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give ...
... words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be ad- mired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give ...
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... words big bulks of boisterous bombast bear . With noise they move , and from players ' mouths rebound , When their tongues dance to thy words ' empty sound . By thee inspir'd the rumbling verses roll , As if that rhyme and bombast lent ...
... words big bulks of boisterous bombast bear . With noise they move , and from players ' mouths rebound , When their tongues dance to thy words ' empty sound . By thee inspir'd the rumbling verses roll , As if that rhyme and bombast lent ...
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... words at once refined from the grossness of domestick use , and free from the harshness of terms appro- priated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From those sounds which we hear on ...
... words at once refined from the grossness of domestick use , and free from the harshness of terms appro- priated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From those sounds which we hear on ...
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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