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... expression , as when he accommodates his diction to the wonder- ful multiplicity of Homer's sentiments and descriptions . Poetical expression includes sound as well as meaning . " Music , " says Dryden , " is inarticulate poetry ...
... expression , as when he accommodates his diction to the wonder- ful multiplicity of Homer's sentiments and descriptions . Poetical expression includes sound as well as meaning . " Music , " says Dryden , " is inarticulate poetry ...
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... expressions as indecent , if not profane . This rebuke is reported to have repressed his thoughts of an ... expression of servile adulation . Winter was dedicated to Sir Spencer Compton , but attracted no regard from him to ...
... expressions as indecent , if not profane . This rebuke is reported to have repressed his thoughts of an ... expression of servile adulation . Winter was dedicated to Sir Spencer Compton , but attracted no regard from him to ...
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... expression can be discovered which betrays anything like the father . In the Second Night I find an expression which betrays something else : that Lorenzo was his friend - one , it is possible , of his former companions ; one of the ...
... expression can be discovered which betrays anything like the father . In the Second Night I find an expression which betrays something else : that Lorenzo was his friend - one , it is possible , of his former companions ; one of the ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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