The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... blank verse . Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The digres ... verses , which , since Dryden has com- mended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated ; are ...
... blank verse . Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The digres ... verses , which , since Dryden has com- mended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated ; are ...
Page 121
... blank verse , particu- larly one tending to reconcile the nation to Ralegh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Ralegh himself . These petty performances can- not be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
... blank verse , particu- larly one tending to reconcile the nation to Ralegh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Ralegh himself . These petty performances can- not be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
Page 122
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critic , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support ...
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critic , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support ...
Page 122
... blank verse : but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme . The highest praise of genius is original inven- tion . Milton cannot be said to have contrived the structure of an epic poem , and therefore owes reverence to ...
... blank verse : but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme . The highest praise of genius is original inven- tion . Milton cannot be said to have contrived the structure of an epic poem , and therefore owes reverence to ...
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... blank verse , particu- larly one tending to reconcile the nation to Ralegh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Ralegh himself . These petty performances can- not be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
... blank verse , particu- larly one tending to reconcile the nation to Ralegh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Ralegh himself . These petty performances can- not be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
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