Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... poetical devo- tion cannot often please . The doctrines of religion may indeed be defended in a didactick poem ; and he who has the happy power of arguing in verse , will not lose it because his subject is sacred . A poet may describe ...
... poetical devo- tion cannot often please . The doctrines of religion may indeed be defended in a didactick poem ; and he who has the happy power of arguing in verse , will not lose it because his subject is sacred . A poet may describe ...
Page 306
... poetical diction , no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestick use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From ...
... poetical diction , no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestick use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From ...
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... poetical craft the absence of poetical art : that such an author is humbly contented to raise men's passions by a plot without doors , since he despairs of doing it by that which he brings upon the stage . That party and passion , and ...
... poetical craft the absence of poetical art : that such an author is humbly contented to raise men's passions by a plot without doors , since he despairs of doing it by that which he brings upon the stage . That party and passion , and ...
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