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The musick of the English heroick line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost , unless all the syllables of every line co - operate together : this co - opera- tion can be only obtained by the preservation of every verse ...
The musick of the English heroick line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost , unless all the syllables of every line co - operate together : this co - opera- tion can be only obtained by the preservation of every verse ...
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For the fable itself ; ' tis in the English more adorned with episodes , and larger than in the Greek poets ; consequently more diverting . For , if the action be but one , and that plain , without any counterturn of design or episode ...
For the fable itself ; ' tis in the English more adorned with episodes , and larger than in the Greek poets ; consequently more diverting . For , if the action be but one , and that plain , without any counterturn of design or episode ...
Page 340
Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with acorns , as he calls it , or with bread , is the next question ; that is , whether the means which Shake- speare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise those passions ...
Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with acorns , as he calls it , or with bread , is the next question ; that is , whether the means which Shake- speare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise those passions ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of Oxford world's classics Issues 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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