Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 133
... 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 ...
Page 287
... English genera- tion 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 ...
... English genera- tion 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 ...
Page 337
... English tragedy : contrarily , in the Greek , innocence is unhappy often , and the offender escapes . Then we are not touched with the sufferings of any sort of men so much as of lovers ; and this was almost unknown to the ancients : so ...
... English tragedy : contrarily , in the Greek , innocence is unhappy often , and the offender escapes . Then we are not touched with the sufferings of any sort of men so much as of lovers ; and this was almost unknown to the ancients : so ...
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