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... Reader while he repeats ; especially in a Poem of any considerable length . . . . He that writes in Rhimes , dances ... Readers . " " Pope had not yet published a poem when Isaac Watts asserted , “ It degrades the Excellency of the best ...
... Reader while he repeats ; especially in a Poem of any considerable length . . . . He that writes in Rhimes , dances ... Readers . " " Pope had not yet published a poem when Isaac Watts asserted , “ It degrades the Excellency of the best ...
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... readers in tune with the infinite he only gets them out of touch with the definite , with the result that few of ... reader is vague as to what this is all about , let him imagine his state of mind after reading fifty such passages ! The ...
... readers in tune with the infinite he only gets them out of touch with the definite , with the result that few of ... reader is vague as to what this is all about , let him imagine his state of mind after reading fifty such passages ! The ...
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... readers whose taste in all the arts must neces- sarily be undeveloped ; and their success is often due to their very faults , to sentimentality or morbidity , to a declamatory , rhetorical style or a fluent expression of platitudes ...
... readers whose taste in all the arts must neces- sarily be undeveloped ; and their success is often due to their very faults , to sentimentality or morbidity , to a declamatory , rhetorical style or a fluent expression of platitudes ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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