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... eyes of their fel- lows . It is astounding that scarcely one of the innumerable eight- eenth - century allusions to the poem speaks of it with the in- difference , dislike , or flippancy which are almost the rule to - day . Nor can it ...
... eyes of their fel- lows . It is astounding that scarcely one of the innumerable eight- eenth - century allusions to the poem speaks of it with the in- difference , dislike , or flippancy which are almost the rule to - day . Nor can it ...
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... eye of the public as Pistol eat his leek under that of Fluellen . After all , he endeavours to do away , collectively , all his reluctant praise of that glorious and beautiful poem , by observing , that no person closes its pages with ...
... eye of the public as Pistol eat his leek under that of Fluellen . After all , he endeavours to do away , collectively , all his reluctant praise of that glorious and beautiful poem , by observing , that no person closes its pages with ...
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... Eyes from Side to Side : As for his other Parts , he lay extended in a melancholy Condition , floating in Length and Breadth over a vast Space of the Abyss.4 Another attempt , made in 1773 , to render the poem intelligible to ' persons ...
... Eyes from Side to Side : As for his other Parts , he lay extended in a melancholy Condition , floating in Length and Breadth over a vast Space of the Abyss.4 Another attempt , made in 1773 , to render the poem intelligible to ' persons ...
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... eye , " and " has neither the easiness of prose nor the melody of numbers . " 3 As might be suspected from the Doctor's partisanship , the move- ment towards freedom in verse found much the same advocates and opponents as that towards ...
... eye , " and " has neither the easiness of prose nor the melody of numbers . " 3 As might be suspected from the Doctor's partisanship , the move- ment towards freedom in verse found much the same advocates and opponents as that towards ...
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... eye on Johnson , expressed it , " It is sufficient , in the idea of many , to condemn a poem , that it is written in blank verse . ' . " 5 Already , in 1770 , the Critical Review had asserted with the finality which is the heritage of ...
... eye on Johnson , expressed it , " It is sufficient , in the idea of many , to condemn a poem , that it is written in blank verse . ' . " 5 Already , in 1770 , the Critical Review had asserted with the finality which is the heritage of ...
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