The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 54
... rhymes are such as seem found without difficulty , by following the sense ; and are for the most part as exact at least as those of other poets , though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get : O how transform'd ...
... rhymes are such as seem found without difficulty , by following the sense ; and are for the most part as exact at least as those of other poets , though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get : O how transform'd ...
Page 55
... rhyme is laid upon a word too feeble to sustain it : Troy confounded falls From all her glories : if it might have ... rhymes three couplets in six . Most of these petty faults are in his first productions , where he was less skilful ...
... rhyme is laid upon a word too feeble to sustain it : Troy confounded falls From all her glories : if it might have ... rhymes three couplets in six . Most of these petty faults are in his first productions , where he was less skilful ...
Page 87
... rhyme , must , by a work so long , be made prompt and habitual ; and , when his thoughts were once adjusted , the words would come at his command . At what particular times of his life the parts of his work were written , cannot often ...
... rhyme , must , by a work so long , be made prompt and habitual ; and , when his thoughts were once adjusted , the words would come at his command . At what particular times of his life the parts of his work were written , cannot often ...
Page 99
... rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought , and violently applied . That in the early parts of his life he wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , happily preserved at Cam- bridge , in which many of his smaller works ...
... rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought , and violently applied . That in the early parts of his life he wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , happily preserved at Cam- bridge , in which many of his smaller works ...
Page 103
... rhyming . The Spirit relates that the Lady is in the power of Comus ; the brother moralizes again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration , of no use because it is false , and therefore unsuitable to a good being . In all these parts ...
... rhyming . The Spirit relates that the Lady is in the power of Comus ; the brother moralizes again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration , of no use because it is false , and therefore unsuitable to a good being . In all these parts ...
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