Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . ( He was desirous to use English words with a ... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably ...
... verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . ( He was desirous to use English words with a ... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably ...
Page 113
... blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse , said an ingenious ...
... blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse , said an ingenious ...
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... blank verse , and supposed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , combined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sustained by images which at most can rise only to elegance ...
... blank verse , and supposed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , combined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sustained by images which at most can rise only to elegance ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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