Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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Page 358
... rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his dic- tion , are of his own growth , without ... rhyme . His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature ...
... rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his dic- tion , are of his own growth , without ... rhyme . His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature ...
Page 411
With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh Samuel Johnson. chose the frequent return of rhyme , which laid me under great difficulties . But difficulties , overcome , give grace and pleasure . Nor can I account for the pleasure of rhyme in general ...
With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh Samuel Johnson. chose the frequent return of rhyme , which laid me under great difficulties . But difficulties , overcome , give grace and pleasure . Nor can I account for the pleasure of rhyme in general ...
Page 437
... rhyme but with disadvantage . The wild diffusion of the sentiments , and the digressive sallies of imagination , would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme . The excellence of this work is not exactness , but ...
... rhyme but with disadvantage . The wild diffusion of the sentiments , and the digressive sallies of imagination , would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme . The excellence of this work is not exactness , but ...
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