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... formed his opinions in the prefent age of English literature , turns back to peruse this dialogue , will not per- haps find much increafe of knowledge , or much novelty of inftruction ; but he is to remember that critical principles ...
... formed his opinions in the prefent age of English literature , turns back to peruse this dialogue , will not per- haps find much increafe of knowledge , or much novelty of inftruction ; but he is to remember that critical principles ...
Page 122
... formed , lie fcattered over all his works ; and by him who thinks the queftion woh his notice , his works must be perused with very clofe attention . Criticifm , either didactick or defenfive , occupies almost all his profe , except ...
... formed , lie fcattered over all his works ; and by him who thinks the queftion woh his notice , his works must be perused with very clofe attention . Criticifm , either didactick or defenfive , occupies almost all his profe , except ...
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... formed upon different principles , it is impoffible that the fame modes . of expreffion fhould always be elegant in both . While they run on together , the clofeft tranf lation may be confidered as the beft ; but when they divaricate ...
... formed upon different principles , it is impoffible that the fame modes . of expreffion fhould always be elegant in both . While they run on together , the clofeft tranf lation may be confidered as the beft ; but when they divaricate ...
Page 132
... Gondibert never ap- pears to have been popular ; and from Dave- nant he learned to please his ear with the stanza of four lines alternately rhymed . Dryden Dryden very early formed his verfification : there are in 132 DRY DE N.
... Gondibert never ap- pears to have been popular ; and from Dave- nant he learned to please his ear with the stanza of four lines alternately rhymed . Dryden Dryden very early formed his verfification : there are in 132 DRY DE N.
Page 133
Samuel Johnson. Dryden very early formed his verfification : there are in this early production no traces . of Donne's or Jonfon's ruggedness ; but he did not fo foon free his mind from the ambition of forced conceits . In his verses on ...
Samuel Johnson. Dryden very early formed his verfification : there are in this early production no traces . of Donne's or Jonfon's ruggedness ; but he did not fo foon free his mind from the ambition of forced conceits . In his verses on ...
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