Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxiv
... rhyme . Poetry , in his eyes , was not poetry as it appeared to Gray— " Truth severe in fairy Fiction drest " . but was valuable chiefly for the quantity it contained of solid rea- soning . When he fails to convince us , he always ...
... rhyme . Poetry , in his eyes , was not poetry as it appeared to Gray— " Truth severe in fairy Fiction drest " . but was valuable chiefly for the quantity it contained of solid rea- soning . When he fails to convince us , he always ...
Pàgina xxxii
... Rhyme - Becomes a constant writer for the Stage Made Poet - Laureate His controversy with Settle and Shadwell Is ridiculed by the Duke of Buckingham in The Rehearsal- Is beaten by bullies hired by the Earl of Rochester - His Political ...
... Rhyme - Becomes a constant writer for the Stage Made Poet - Laureate His controversy with Settle and Shadwell Is ridiculed by the Duke of Buckingham in The Rehearsal- Is beaten by bullies hired by the Earl of Rochester - His Political ...
Pàgina 19
... rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so im- perfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting ...
... rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so im- perfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting ...
Pàgina 21
... rhyme , and volubility of syllables . In perusing the works of this race of authors , the mind is exercised either by recollection or inquiry ; either something already learned is to be retrieved , or something new is to be examined ...
... rhyme , and volubility of syllables . In perusing the works of this race of authors , the mind is exercised either by recollection or inquiry ; either something already learned is to be retrieved , or something new is to be examined ...
Pàgina 41
... rhyming prose : " But in this thankless world the givers Are envied even by the receivers ; " Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide than pay the obligation : Nay , ' tis much worse than so ; It now an artifice does grow ...
... rhyming prose : " But in this thankless world the givers Are envied even by the receivers ; " Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide than pay the obligation : Nay , ' tis much worse than so ; It now an artifice does grow ...
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