Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... ancient models : for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed , with a dedication in verse to Dr ... Ancients On conventing love goetry the suppression of the theatres , COWLEY 3.
... ancient models : for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed , with a dedication in verse to Dr ... Ancients On conventing love goetry the suppression of the theatres , COWLEY 3.
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... ancients ; his unneces- sary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention , because they are easily re- marked , and generally censured , and at last ... ancient tragedies , with their encumbrance of a MILTON 135.
... ancients ; his unneces- sary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention , because they are easily re- marked , and generally censured , and at last ... ancient tragedies , with their encumbrance of a MILTON 135.
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... ancient tragedy always represents its chief person such , as it is for an innocent man ; and the suffering of ... ancients : so that they neither administered poetical justice , of which Mr. Rymer boasts , so well as we ; neither ...
... ancient tragedy always represents its chief person such , as it is for an innocent man ; and the suffering of ... ancients : so that they neither administered poetical justice , of which Mr. Rymer boasts , so well as we ; neither ...
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