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Throughout the whole , the figures are too bold , and the language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously in- structive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of ...
Throughout the whole , the figures are too bold , and the language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously in- structive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of ...
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Of him , at last , may be said what ~ Jonson says of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect , in itself & harsh and barbarous , but made by exalted genius and extensive learning ...
Of him , at last , may be said what ~ Jonson says of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect , in itself & harsh and barbarous , but made by exalted genius and extensive learning ...
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But one language cannot communicate its rules to another : where metre is scanty and imperfect , some help is necessary . The musick of the English heroick line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost , unless all the ...
But one language cannot communicate its rules to another : where metre is scanty and imperfect , some help is necessary . The musick of the English heroick line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost , unless all the ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 493 pages |
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