The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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Page 14
... versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton disdained it . CRITICAL REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore ...
... versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton disdained it . CRITICAL REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore ...
Page 34
... versification so much concealed the deficiencies of the barren , and flattered the laziness of the idle , that it immediately overspread our books of poetry ; all the boys and girls caught the pleasing fashion , and they that could do ...
... versification so much concealed the deficiencies of the barren , and flattered the laziness of the idle , that it immediately overspread our books of poetry ; all the boys and girls caught the pleasing fashion , and they that could do ...
Page 43
... versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only when they are ill - read , the art of reading them is at present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ...
... versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only when they are ill - read , the art of reading them is at present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ...
Page 44
... attempted an improved and scientific versification ; of which it will be best to give his own account subjoined to this line : Nor can the glory contain itself in the endless space . " I am sorry that it is necessary to admonish 44 COWLEY .
... attempted an improved and scientific versification ; of which it will be best to give his own account subjoined to this line : Nor can the glory contain itself in the endless space . " I am sorry that it is necessary to admonish 44 COWLEY .
Page 45
... syllables . But , not to defraud him of his due praise , he has given one example of representative versification , which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise COWLEY . 45.
... syllables . But , not to defraud him of his due praise , he has given one example of representative versification , which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise COWLEY . 45.
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