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The connection is supplied with great perspicuity , and the thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation ...
The connection is supplied with great perspicuity , and the thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation ...
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... the reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader DRYDEN 321.
... the reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader DRYDEN 321.
Page 330
The Latin never deviates into seven feet , or exceeds the number of seven . teen syllables ; but the English Alexandrine breaks the lawful bounds , and surprises the reader with two syllabies more than he expected .
The Latin never deviates into seven feet , or exceeds the number of seven . teen syllables ; but the English Alexandrine breaks the lawful bounds , and surprises the reader with two syllabies more than he expected .
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2011 |
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