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Page 98
... stanza of the other . It is said to have cost Dryden a fortnight's labour ; but it does not want its negligences ; some of the lines are without correspondent rhymes ; a defect which I never detected but after an acquaintance of many ...
... stanza of the other . It is said to have cost Dryden a fortnight's labour ; but it does not want its negligences ; some of the lines are without correspondent rhymes ; a defect which I never detected but after an acquaintance of many ...
Page 387
... stanza , however , has something pleasing . Of the second ternary of stanzas , the first en- deavours to tell something , and would have told it had it not been crossed by Hyperion : the second de- scribes well enough the universal ...
... stanza , however , has something pleasing . Of the second ternary of stanzas , the first en- deavours to tell something , and would have told it had it not been crossed by Hyperion : the second de- scribes well enough the universal ...
Page 389
... stanzas are too long , especially his epodes ; the ode is finished before the ear has learned its meas- ures , and consequently before it can receive pleasure from their consonance and recurrence . Of the first stanza the abrupt ...
... stanzas are too long , especially his epodes ; the ode is finished before the ear has learned its meas- ures , and consequently before it can receive pleasure from their consonance and recurrence . Of the first stanza the abrupt ...
Contents
From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 A Gateway Edition Volume 83 of The World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Gateway Editions, 1955 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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