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... reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment . Yet , even if he prefers Akenside's blank verse to that of any other ...
... reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment . Yet , even if he prefers Akenside's blank verse to that of any other ...
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... Reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written ...
... Reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written ...
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... reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the ...
... reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the ...
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