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... praise , and its praise is yet more when it is apparently Sir Richard Fanshaw's version of Guarini's Pastor Fido was pub- lished in 1648. For translation see ante , COWLEY , 125 , 202 ; post , DRY- DEN , 107 , 223 . 2 Eng . Poets , ix ...
... praise , and its praise is yet more when it is apparently Sir Richard Fanshaw's version of Guarini's Pastor Fido was pub- lished in 1648. For translation see ante , COWLEY , 125 , 202 ; post , DRY- DEN , 107 , 223 . 2 Eng . Poets , ix ...
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... praise than it deserves 3 . Blank verse left merely to its numbers has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem frigidly didactick without rhyme is so ...
... praise than it deserves 3 . Blank verse left merely to its numbers has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem frigidly didactick without rhyme is so ...
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... praise , lamented shade ! receive , This praise at least a grateful Muse may give : The Muse whose early voice you taught to sing , Prescrib'd her heights , and prun'd her tender wing ( Her guide now lost ) , no more attempts to rise ...
... praise , lamented shade ! receive , This praise at least a grateful Muse may give : The Muse whose early voice you taught to sing , Prescrib'd her heights , and prun'd her tender wing ( Her guide now lost ) , no more attempts to rise ...
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