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Cowley adopted it , and In excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment , and more musick . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could ...
Cowley adopted it , and In excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment , and more musick . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could ...
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After the scheme and fabrick of the poem , must be considered its component parts , the sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appropriated to characters , are , for the greater part unexceptionably ...
After the scheme and fabrick of the poem , must be considered its component parts , the sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appropriated to characters , are , for the greater part unexceptionably ...
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The measure is quick , spritely , and colloquial , suitable to the vulgarity of the words and the levity of the sentiments . But such numbers and such diction can gain regard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and ...
The measure is quick , spritely , and colloquial , suitable to the vulgarity of the words and the levity of the sentiments . But such numbers and such diction can gain regard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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