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Page 57
... versification , and Dryden perfected it . ' He has given specimens of various composition , descrip- tive , ludicrous , didactick , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon ...
... versification , and Dryden perfected it . ' He has given specimens of various composition , descrip- tive , ludicrous , didactick , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon ...
Page 98
... Versification , free , like his , from the distresses of rhyme , must , by a work so long , be made prompt and habitual ; and , when his thoughts were once adjusted , the words would come at his com- mand . At what particular times of ...
... Versification , free , like his , from the distresses of rhyme , must , by a work so long , be made prompt and habitual ; and , when his thoughts were once adjusted , the words would come at his com- mand . At what particular times of ...
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... versification is indeed sometimes careless , but it is sometimes vigorous and weighty . The strongest effort of his Muse is his poem upon Nothing . He is not the first who has chosen this barren topick for the boast of his fertility ...
... versification is indeed sometimes careless , but it is sometimes vigorous and weighty . The strongest effort of his Muse is his poem upon Nothing . He is not the first who has chosen this barren topick for the boast of his fertility ...
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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 |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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