Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 117
... language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously in- structive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life , upon different occasions . They deserve not any ...
... language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously in- structive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life , upon different occasions . They deserve not any ...
Page 133
... languages ; and in languages melodiously constructed with a due proportion of long and short syllables , metre is sufficient . But one language cannot communicate its rules to another : where metre is scanty and imperfect , some help is ...
... languages ; and in languages melodiously constructed with a due proportion of long and short syllables , metre is sufficient . But one language cannot communicate its rules to another : where metre is scanty and imperfect , some help is ...
Page 158
... 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 the ...
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