Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works |
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... verses to Fletcher , we have an image that has since been adopted : But whither am I stray'd ? I need not raise Trophies to ... blank verse . " Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The ...
... verses to Fletcher , we have an image that has since been adopted : But whither am I stray'd ? I need not raise Trophies to ... blank verse . " Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The ...
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... verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words with a ... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably ...
... verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words with a ... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably ...
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... blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse , said an ...
... blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse , said an ...
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... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose , that ...
... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose , that ...
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... 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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