Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
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Page 33
... words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is prac- tised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give ...
... words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is prac- tised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give ...
Page 254
... words big bulks of boisterous bombast bear . With noise they move , and from players ' mouths rebound , When their tongues dance to thy words ' empty sound . By thee inspir'd the rumbling verses roll , As if that rhyme and bombast lent ...
... words big bulks of boisterous bombast bear . With noise they move , and from players ' mouths rebound , When their tongues dance to thy words ' empty sound . By thee inspir'd the rumbling verses roll , As if that rhyme and bombast lent ...
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... words and thoughts , than the justness of the occasion ; and if he had been able to pick single occasions , he had never founded the whole reasonably : yet , by the genius of poetry in writing , he has succeeded . ' Rapin attributes ...
... words and thoughts , than the justness of the occasion ; and if he had been able to pick single occasions , he had never founded the whole reasonably : yet , by the genius of poetry in writing , he has succeeded . ' Rapin attributes ...
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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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