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... composed three poems in a verse roughly modelled upon that of Paradise Lost , and had asked , " Who can read Virgil , Horace , Ovid , Milton , Waller , or Rochester , without touching the Strings of his Soul , and finding a Unison of ...
... composed three poems in a verse roughly modelled upon that of Paradise Lost , and had asked , " Who can read Virgil , Horace , Ovid , Milton , Waller , or Rochester , without touching the Strings of his Soul , and finding a Unison of ...
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... composed in couplets , had never been really popular , and by the time Pope ceased writing the men who reached the people and affected literature vitally were making little use of it . On the other hand , after the first quarter of the ...
... composed in couplets , had never been really popular , and by the time Pope ceased writing the men who reached the people and affected literature vitally were making little use of it . On the other hand , after the first quarter of the ...
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... composed several odes , a monody , and a tale in unrimed octosyllabic and pentameter lines , 2 and others wrote sonnets , Pindaric odes , and stanzas in blank verse.3 Lyrics without rime — usually , like Collins's exquisite Ode to ...
... composed several odes , a monody , and a tale in unrimed octosyllabic and pentameter lines , 2 and others wrote sonnets , Pindaric odes , and stanzas in blank verse.3 Lyrics without rime — usually , like Collins's exquisite Ode to ...
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... composed of five Iambics . . . must want , by the uniformity of cadence , that variety that produces . . . harmony ... and therefore Dryden and Milton , the greatest masters of Eng- lish versification , have frequently given us two or ...
... composed of five Iambics . . . must want , by the uniformity of cadence , that variety that produces . . . harmony ... and therefore Dryden and Milton , the greatest masters of Eng- lish versification , have frequently given us two or ...
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... composed , their author being a busy , middle - aged London doctor , the physician to King William , with little time for literature . " For the greatest part , " so he in- formed his readers , his first epic " . was written in Coffee ...
... composed , their author being a busy , middle - aged London doctor , the physician to King William , with little time for literature . " For the greatest part , " so he in- formed his readers , his first epic " . was written in Coffee ...
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