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Page 117
... pleasing precepts , and therefore re- lates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply the writer with the rudiments of narration , which he must improve and exalt by a nobler art , must animate by dramatick ...
... pleasing precepts , and therefore re- lates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply the writer with the rudiments of narration , which he must improve and exalt by a nobler art , must animate by dramatick ...
Page 294
... pleasing when they were broken into couplets , and that verse consisted not only in the number but the arrangement of syllables . But though they did much , who can deny that they left much to do ? Their works were not many , nor were ...
... pleasing when they were broken into couplets , and that verse consisted not only in the number but the arrangement of syllables . But though they did much , who can deny that they left much to do ? Their works were not many , nor were ...
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... pleasing of our lyric measures ; as , Relentless Time , destroying power , Which stone and brass obey , Who giv'st to every flying hour To work some new decay . In the Alexandrine , when its power was once felt , some poems , as ...
... pleasing of our lyric measures ; as , Relentless Time , destroying power , Which stone and brass obey , Who giv'st to every flying hour To work some new decay . In the Alexandrine , when its power was once felt , some poems , as ...
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