Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... writer is always in full - dress , and full - dress of the stiffest and most unrelenting description . " " 1 But it is an exaggeration to say always . Johnson did indeed write Rasselas and Irene in full - dress ; and in obedience to the ...
... writer is always in full - dress , and full - dress of the stiffest and most unrelenting description . " " 1 But it is an exaggeration to say always . Johnson did indeed write Rasselas and Irene in full - dress ; and in obedience to the ...
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... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musa Angli- cana ...
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musa Angli- cana ...
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... writer , that , when he had taken his resolution , or made his plan for what he designed to write , he would walk about the room , and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down , and attend to ...
... writer , that , when he had taken his resolution , or made his plan for what he designed to write , he would walk about the room , and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down , and attend to ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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