Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 246
... poetical than he had shewn before ; with elegance of description and justness of precepts , he had now exhibited boundless fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the machinery with the action as his most ...
... poetical than he had shewn before ; with elegance of description and justness of precepts , he had now exhibited boundless fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the machinery with the action as his most ...
Page 481
... poetical as it was more remote from common use : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring , an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond apprehension , by making gales to be ...
... poetical as it was more remote from common use : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring , an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond apprehension , by making gales to be ...
Page 483
... poetical power are put out of sight by the pomp of machinery . Where truth is sufficient to fill the mind , fiction ... poetically true , and happily imagined . But the car of Dryden , with his two coursers , has nothing in it peculiar ...
... poetical power are put out of sight by the pomp of machinery . Where truth is sufficient to fill the mind , fiction ... poetically true , and happily imagined . But the car of Dryden , with his two coursers , has nothing in it peculiar ...
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