Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 328
... diction , or sweetness of versification ; but what can form avail without better matter ? The last stanza recurs again to commonplaces . The conclusion is too evidently modelled by that of Dryden ; and it may be remarked that both end ...
... diction , or sweetness of versification ; but what can form avail without better matter ? The last stanza recurs again to commonplaces . The conclusion is too evidently modelled by that of Dryden ; and it may be remarked that both end ...
Page 346
... diction , contrary to what one would imagine consistent with simplicity , is at the same time very copious ) . I don't know how I have run into this pedantry in a Letter , but I find I have said too much , as well as spoken too incon ...
... diction , contrary to what one would imagine consistent with simplicity , is at the same time very copious ) . I don't know how I have run into this pedantry in a Letter , but I find I have said too much , as well as spoken too incon ...
Page 385
... diction was elegant and copious . But his devotional poetry is , like that of others , unsatisfactory . The paucity of its topicks enforces perpetual repetition , and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figur- ative diction ...
... diction was elegant and copious . But his devotional poetry is , like that of others , unsatisfactory . The paucity of its topicks enforces perpetual repetition , and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figur- ative diction ...
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