The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... line enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before , but he feels it with ... lines like these : 23 Johnson said [ 16th Oct. 1769 ] that the description of the temple in ' The Mourning Bride ...
... line enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before , but he feels it with ... lines like these : 23 Johnson said [ 16th Oct. 1769 ] that the description of the temple in ' The Mourning Bride ...
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... line it has , which was borrowed from Dryden . The concluding verses are these : " This said , no more remain'd . Th ... lines which Pope had in his mind when he wrote his own . His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical , and ...
... line it has , which was borrowed from Dryden . The concluding verses are these : " This said , no more remain'd . Th ... lines which Pope had in his mind when he wrote his own . His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical , and ...
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... lines are weakened with expletives , and his rhymes are frequently imperfect . His petty poems are seldom worth the cost of criticism ; some- times the thoughts are false , and sometimes common . In his verses on Lady Gethin , the ...
... lines are weakened with expletives , and his rhymes are frequently imperfect . His petty poems are seldom worth the cost of criticism ; some- times the thoughts are false , and sometimes common . In his verses on Lady Gethin , the ...
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... lines every half year , and employing part of the other half year in writing prose pamphlets against the obscene plays and publications of the time . The poems were to be printed . As the University never obtained the bequest , the ...
... lines every half year , and employing part of the other half year in writing prose pamphlets against the obscene plays and publications of the time . The poems were to be printed . As the University never obtained the bequest , the ...
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... lines of ten syllables , with few of those redundant terminations which the drama not only admits but requires , as more nearly approaching to real dialogue . The tenor of his verse is so uniform that it cannot be thought casual ; and ...
... lines of ten syllables , with few of those redundant terminations which the drama not only admits but requires , as more nearly approaching to real dialogue . The tenor of his verse is so uniform that it cannot be thought casual ; and ...
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