Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 49
... critics call " Alliteration , " of using in the same verse many words beginning with the same letter . But this knack , whatever be its value , was so frequent among early writers , that Gascoigne , a writer of the sixteenth century ...
... critics call " Alliteration , " of using in the same verse many words beginning with the same letter . But this knack , whatever be its value , was so frequent among early writers , that Gascoigne , a writer of the sixteenth century ...
Page 74
... criticism , with vicious Latin . He opens his book with telling that he has used Persona , which , according to Milton , signifies only a Mask , in a sense not known to the Romans , by applying it as we apply Person . But as Nemesis is ...
... criticism , with vicious Latin . He opens his book with telling that he has used Persona , which , according to Milton , signifies only a Mask , in a sense not known to the Romans , by applying it as we apply Person . But as Nemesis is ...
Page 104
... critics ; and he appears to have cultivated Italian with uncommon diligence . The books in which his daughter , who used to read to him , represented him as most delighting , after Homer , which he could almost repeat , were Ovid's ...
... critics ; and he appears to have cultivated Italian with uncommon diligence . The books in which his daughter , who used to read to him , represented him as most delighting , after Homer , which he could almost repeat , were Ovid's ...
Page 108
... critic ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit . The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant : but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient writers , by the ...
... critic ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit . The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant : but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient writers , by the ...
Page 115
Samuel Johnson. life , upon different occasions . They deserve not any particular criticism ; for of the best it can ... critics the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the ...
Samuel Johnson. life , upon different occasions . They deserve not any particular criticism ; for of the best it can ... critics the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the ...
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