Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 |
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Nothing can be subject only in its positive sense , and such a sense is given it in the first line : Nothing ... concludes with a poem in which are these lines : Jam primum terram validis circumspice claustris Suspensam totam , decus ...
Nothing can be subject only in its positive sense , and such a sense is given it in the first line : Nothing ... concludes with a poem in which are these lines : Jam primum terram validis circumspice claustris Suspensam totam , decus ...
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He wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes reprisals upon his enemy . To say that his answer is equal to the censure , is no high commendation . To expose Dryden's method of analysing his ...
He wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes reprisals upon his enemy . To say that his answer is equal to the censure , is no high commendation . To expose Dryden's method of analysing his ...
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Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse , the full - resounding line , The long majestick march , and energy divine . Some improvements had been already made in English numbers ; but the full force of our ...
Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse , the full - resounding line , The long majestick march , and energy divine . Some improvements had been already made in English numbers ; but the full force of our ...
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