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Page 290
... versification of Ovid with that of Claudian has been very justly cen- sured by Sewel . His comparison of the first line of Virgil with the first of Statius is not happier . Virgil , he says , is soft and gentle , and would have thought ...
... versification of Ovid with that of Claudian has been very justly cen- sured by Sewel . His comparison of the first line of Virgil with the first of Statius is not happier . Virgil , he says , is soft and gentle , and would have thought ...
Page 307
... versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me , merely as the most profitable market for poetry . By writing ...
... versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me , merely as the most profitable market for poetry . By writing ...
Page 329
... versification will be little more than a dilatation of the praise given it by Pope . Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join` The varying verse , the full - resounding line , The long majestick march , and energy divine . Some ...
... versification will be little more than a dilatation of the praise given it by Pope . Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join` The varying verse , the full - resounding line , The long majestick march , and energy divine . Some ...
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