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Page 137
... blank verse ; particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more probably ...
... blank verse ; particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more probably ...
Page 138
... blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse ...
... blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse ...
Page 168
... blank verses is unwarrantably licentious . Latin poets might as well have ... verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear ... verse . Having disentangled himself from the difficulties of rhyme , he ...
... blank verses is unwarrantably licentious . Latin poets might as well have ... verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear ... verse . Having disentangled himself from the difficulties of rhyme , he ...
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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