Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 62
... versification ought to be con- sidered . It will afford that pleasure which arises from the observation of a man of judgement naturally right forsaking bad copies by degrees , and advancing towards a better practice , as he gains more ...
... versification ought to be con- sidered . It will afford that pleasure which arises from the observation of a man of judgement naturally right forsaking bad copies by degrees , and advancing towards a better practice , as he gains more ...
Page 152
... versification has been blamed by Dryden , who regrets that the heroick measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden the highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate , and his opinions ...
... versification has been blamed by Dryden , who regrets that the heroick measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden the highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate , and his opinions ...
Page 310
... versification : there are in this early production no traces of Donne's or Jonson's ruggedness ; but he did not so soon free his mind from the ambition of forced conceits . In his verses on the Restoration , he says of the King's exile ...
... versification : there are in this early production no traces of Donne's or Jonson's ruggedness ; but he did not so soon free his mind from the ambition of forced conceits . In his verses on the Restoration , he says of the King's exile ...
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