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... pleasure ' : poetry that gives no pleasure is not for him . For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment ...
... pleasure ' : poetry that gives no pleasure is not for him . For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment ...
Page 113
... pleasure , had he not known its author . Of the two pieces , L'Allegro and Il Penseroso , I believe opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them , reads them with pleasure . The author's design is not , what Theobald has remarked ...
... pleasure , had he not known its author . Of the two pieces , L'Allegro and Il Penseroso , I believe opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them , reads them with pleasure . The author's design is not , what Theobald has remarked ...
Page 337
... pleasure and instruction . ' And these two ends may be thus distinguished . The chief end of the poet is to please ; for his immediate reputation depends on it . " The great part of the poem is to instruct , which is performed by making ...
... pleasure and instruction . ' And these two ends may be thus distinguished . The chief end of the poet is to please ; for his immediate reputation depends on it . " The great part of the poem is to instruct , which is performed by making ...
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