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I See his addrefs to the furies in the of Sophocles , beginning at the words , at verfe 85 , down to verfe 117. And afterwards , when he becomes more particularly acquainted with the unnatural cruelty of his fons , yet his refentment is ...
I See his addrefs to the furies in the of Sophocles , beginning at the words , at verfe 85 , down to verfe 117. And afterwards , when he becomes more particularly acquainted with the unnatural cruelty of his fons , yet his refentment is ...
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It is not my intention to enter into a trite and tedious difcuffion of the feveral merits of rhyme and blank verfe , Perhaps rhyme may be propereft for fhorter pieces ; for lyric , elegiac , and fatiric poems ; for pieces where ...
It is not my intention to enter into a trite and tedious difcuffion of the feveral merits of rhyme and blank verfe , Perhaps rhyme may be propereft for fhorter pieces ; for lyric , elegiac , and fatiric poems ; for pieces where ...
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But the moft harmonious of rhymers has faid- " What rhyme adds to sweetness , it takes away from fenfe . " DRYDEN . - The rhymes in L'Allegro and Il Penferofo are juft and correct . affected affected so much in blank verfe , would not ...
But the moft harmonious of rhymers has faid- " What rhyme adds to sweetness , it takes away from fenfe . " DRYDEN . - The rhymes in L'Allegro and Il Penferofo are juft and correct . affected affected so much in blank verfe , would not ...
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affected so much in blank verfe , would not have been fupported even in Milton , had not his fubject turned fo much on fuch · Strange and out of the world things as it does * . " - May we not , however , venture to obferve , that more ...
affected so much in blank verfe , would not have been fupported even in Milton , had not his fubject turned fo much on fuch · Strange and out of the world things as it does * . " - May we not , however , venture to obferve , that more ...
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But every reader of a just taste will always admire the minute description of the helmet and creft , at verfe the 257th ; the clapping of the wings of the Heron which they could not fee ; the Squatting down among the dead bodies till ...
But every reader of a just taste will always admire the minute description of the helmet and creft , at verfe the 257th ; the clapping of the wings of the Heron which they could not fee ; the Squatting down among the dead bodies till ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
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