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Page 57
'Denham and Waller,' says Prior, 'improved our versification, and Dryden
perfected it.' He has given specimens of various composition, descriptive,
ludicrous, didactick, and sublime. He appears to have had, in common with
almost all mankind ...
'Denham and Waller,' says Prior, 'improved our versification, and Dryden
perfected it.' He has given specimens of various composition, descriptive,
ludicrous, didactick, and sublime. He appears to have had, in common with
almost all mankind ...
Page 98
Versification, free, like his, from the distresses of rhyme, must, by a work so long,
be made prompt and habitual; and, when his thoughts were once adjusted, the
words would come at his command. At what particular times of his life the parts of
...
Versification, free, like his, from the distresses of rhyme, must, by a work so long,
be made prompt and habitual; and, when his thoughts were once adjusted, the
words would come at his command. At what particular times of his life the parts of
...
Page 147
To another that conveys common thoughts in careless versification, it will only be
said, 'Pauper videri Cinna vult, & est pauper.' The meaning and diction will be
worthy of each other, and criticism may justly doom them to perish together.
To another that conveys common thoughts in careless versification, it will only be
said, 'Pauper videri Cinna vult, & est pauper.' The meaning and diction will be
worthy of each other, and criticism may justly doom them to perish together.
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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