The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 52
... blank verse . " Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The ... verses , which , since Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally ...
... blank verse . " Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The ... verses , which , since Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally ...
Page 117
... 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 Ralegh'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 Ralegh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably ...
Page 118
... blank verse easier than rhyme , was desirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says ... verse unmingled with another as a distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the ...
... blank verse easier than rhyme , was desirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says ... verse unmingled with another as a distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the ...
Page 143
... 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 ...
Page 197
... verse was harmonious , in propor- tion to the general state of our metre in Milton's age ; and , if he had written after the improvements made by Dryden , it is reasonable to believe that ... blank verse , and supposed that J. PHILIPS . 197.
... verse was harmonious , in propor- tion to the general state of our metre in Milton's age ; and , if he had written after the improvements made by Dryden , it is reasonable to believe that ... blank verse , and supposed that J. PHILIPS . 197.
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