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Page 31
... verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very ... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , COWLEY 31.
... verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very ... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , COWLEY 31.
Page 66
... verses with classick elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Elizabeth's reign , however they may have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verses than they provoke derision . If ...
... verses with classick elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Elizabeth's reign , however they may have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verses than they provoke derision . If ...
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... verses is unwarrantably licentious . Latin poets might as well have introduced a series of iambicks among the heroicks . His next work is the translation of the Art of Poetry ; which has received , in my opinion , not less praise than ...
... verses is unwarrantably licentious . Latin poets might as well have introduced a series of iambicks among the heroicks . His next work is the translation of the Art of Poetry ; which has received , in my opinion , not less praise than ...
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