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Page 117
a Throughout the whole , the figures are too bold , and the language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously instructive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of ...
a Throughout the whole , the figures are too bold , and the language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously instructive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of ...
Page 133
But one language cannot communicate its rules to another : where metre is scanty and imperfect , some help is necessary . The musick of the English heroick line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost , unless all the ...
But one language cannot communicate its rules to another : where metre is scanty and imperfect , some help is necessary . The musick of the English heroick line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost , unless all the ...
Page 158
The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and doubtless thought rightly ; but the event has not shewn that they fixed it ; for the French of ...
The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and doubtless thought rightly ; but the event has not shewn that they fixed it ; for the French of ...
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