Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... lines 3 . ' Bettesworth was so little satisfied with this account that he publickly professed his resolution of a ... line it is ' out - pays . ' 2 ' Upon entering the room , ' says T. Sheridan , who had it from his father , ' Swift ...
... lines 3 . ' Bettesworth was so little satisfied with this account that he publickly professed his resolution of a ... line it is ' out - pays . ' 2 ' Upon entering the room , ' says T. Sheridan , who had it from his father , ' Swift ...
Page 66
... lines and the like of Swift and his correspondents in hours of languor . ' COLERIDGE , Biog . Lit. i . 59 . I am for ... line is from Denham's elegy on Cowley : - ' To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own ...
... lines and the like of Swift and his correspondents in hours of languor . ' COLERIDGE , Biog . Lit. i . 59 . I am for ... line is from Denham's elegy on Cowley : - ' To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own ...
Page 73
... Lines on the Death of Dr. Swift he wrote : - ' The Queen , so gracious , mild and good , Cries , " Is he gone ! ' tis time he should . He's dead you say ; then let him rot ; I'm glad the medals were forgot . " " Ib . xiv . 323 . These ...
... Lines on the Death of Dr. Swift he wrote : - ' The Queen , so gracious , mild and good , Cries , " Is he gone ! ' tis time he should . He's dead you say ; then let him rot ; I'm glad the medals were forgot . " " Ib . xiv . 323 . These ...
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... lines . Ozell , moreover , in his preface to the first volume , after stating that ' blank verse seems to be the only proper measure for an English translation of Homer , ' continues : - " The translator may end his line with long words ...
... lines . Ozell , moreover , in his preface to the first volume , after stating that ' blank verse seems to be the only proper measure for an English translation of Homer , ' continues : - " The translator may end his line with long words ...
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... lines are smooth and sonorous , and his diction is select and elegant . His rhymes are sometimes unsuitable : in his Melancholy he makes breath rhyme to birth in one place , and to earth in another " . Those faults occur but seldom ...
... lines are smooth and sonorous , and his diction is select and elegant . His rhymes are sometimes unsuitable : in his Melancholy he makes breath rhyme to birth in one place , and to earth in another " . Those faults occur but seldom ...
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