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Page 49
He has given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical ...
He has given not the same numbers , but the same diction , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical ...
Page 146
If he intended that , when the numbers were heroick , the diction should still remain vulgar , he planned a very heterogeneous and unnatural composition . If he preferred a general stateliness both of 10 > sound and words , he can be ...
If he intended that , when the numbers were heroick , the diction should still remain vulgar , he planned a very heterogeneous and unnatural composition . If he preferred a general stateliness both of 10 > sound and words , he can be ...
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... imitates Milton's numbers indeed , but imitates them very injudiciously . Deformity is easily copied ; and whatever there is in Milton which the reader wishes away , all that is obsolete , peculiar , or licentious , is accumulated ...
... imitates Milton's numbers indeed , but imitates them very injudiciously . Deformity is easily copied ; and whatever there is in Milton which the reader wishes away , all that is obsolete , peculiar , or licentious , is accumulated ...
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