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... Reader while he repeats ; especially in a Poem of any considerable length . . . . He that writes in Rhimes , dances ... Readers . " " Pope had not yet published a poem when Isaac Watts asserted , " It degrades the Excellency of the best ...
... Reader while he repeats ; especially in a Poem of any considerable length . . . . He that writes in Rhimes , dances ... Readers . " " Pope had not yet published a poem when Isaac Watts asserted , " It degrades the Excellency of the best ...
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... readers . " 3 Nu- merous readers implied some imitators , and these Young had . Even before the last books of the poem had been published , other Night Thoughts , Day Thoughts , and pieces " after the manner of Dr. Young " or " in ...
... readers . " 3 Nu- merous readers implied some imitators , and these Young had . Even before the last books of the poem had been published , other Night Thoughts , Day Thoughts , and pieces " after the manner of Dr. Young " or " in ...
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... readers whose taste in all the arts must neces- sarily be undeveloped ; and their success is often due to their very faults , to sentimentality or morbidity , to a declamatory , rhetorical style or a fluent expression of platitudes . 1 ...
... readers whose taste in all the arts must neces- sarily be undeveloped ; and their success is often due to their very faults , to sentimentality or morbidity , to a declamatory , rhetorical style or a fluent expression of platitudes . 1 ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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