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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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... versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me , merely as the most profitable market for poetry . By writing ...
... versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me , merely as the most profitable market for poetry . By writing ...
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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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