Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 |
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But the truth is , that , both in prose and verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantick principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ...
But the truth is , that , both in prose and verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantick principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ...
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He now busied his mind with literary projects , and formed the plan of a society for refining our language , and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which he had been acquainted ...
He now busied his mind with literary projects , and formed the plan of a society for refining our language , and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which he had been acquainted ...
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He then undertook an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses , translated by several hands ; which he recommended by a Preface , written with more ostentation than ability : his notions are half - formed , and his materials immethodically ...
He then undertook an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses , translated by several hands ; which he recommended by a Preface , written with more ostentation than ability : his notions are half - formed , and his materials immethodically ...
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