Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 38
... numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and con- tinuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he ...
... numbers , and to have supplied smoothness of transition and con- tinuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he ...
Page 49
... 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 only when they are ill ...
... 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 only when they are ill ...
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... numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by their native excellence secure themselves from violation , being such as mean language cannot express . The mode of versification has been blamed by Dryden , who ...
... numbers purposely neglected , except in a few places where the thoughts by their native excellence secure themselves from violation , being such as mean language cannot express . The mode of versification has been blamed by Dryden , who ...
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