Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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Page 132
... English Poetry might be learned . After his diction , something must be said of his versifica- tion . The measure , he says , is the English heroick verse without rhyme . Of this mode he had many examples among the Italians , and some ...
... English Poetry might be learned . After his diction , something must be said of his versifica- tion . The measure , he says , is the English heroick verse without rhyme . Of this mode he had many examples among the Italians , and some ...
Page 287
... English genera- tion must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition ...
... English genera- tion must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition ...
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... English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr. Rymer has done . ' After all , we need not yield that the English way is less conducing to move pity and terror , because they often ...
... English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr. Rymer has done . ' After all , we need not yield that the English way is less conducing to move pity and terror , because they often ...
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