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Page 132
... blank verse ; particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
... blank verse ; particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
Page 133
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critick , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself ...
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critick , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself ...
Page 224
... blank verse , and supposed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , com- bined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sustained by images which at most can rise only to elegance ...
... blank verse , and supposed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , com- bined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sustained by images which at most can rise only to elegance ...
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