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Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most 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 ...
Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most 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 ...
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After about half a century of forced thoughts , and rugged metre , some advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham ; they had shewn that long discourses in rhyme grew more pleasing when they were ...
After about half a century of forced thoughts , and rugged metre , some advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham ; they had shewn that long discourses in rhyme grew more pleasing when they were ...
Page 330
... con- sisting of eight and six syllables , make the most soft and 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 .
... con- sisting of eight and six syllables , make the most soft and 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 .
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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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