The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xi
... verse ' ; and most of us think that , given the mass of English poetry to choose from , we can hit upon more ' poetical paragraphs ' than the well - known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said ...
... verse ' ; and most of us think that , given the mass of English poetry to choose from , we can hit upon more ' poetical paragraphs ' than the well - known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said ...
Pàgina xii
... verse , his disgust at Lycidas , his contempt for Gray's Odes , if we cannot share , we can , to some extent at least , explain by a consideration of the general canons of criticism disclosed in the Lives . Criticism , then , according ...
... verse , his disgust at Lycidas , his contempt for Gray's Odes , if we cannot share , we can , to some extent at least , explain by a consideration of the general canons of criticism disclosed in the Lives . Criticism , then , according ...
Pàgina xvii
... verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for dramatic composi- tion , and may be employed by him that thinks himself capable of astonishing . But those that hope only to please must con- descend to rhyme ...
... verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for dramatic composi- tion , and may be employed by him that thinks himself capable of astonishing . But those that hope only to please must con- descend to rhyme ...
Pàgina xviii
... verse , subsequent to Milton , seem to have proceeded on the assumption that ' not to write prose is certainly to write poetry . ' It is merely the truth to say of them that their blank verses will be found by such as can read them to ...
... verse , subsequent to Milton , seem to have proceeded on the assumption that ' not to write prose is certainly to write poetry . ' It is merely the truth to say of them that their blank verses will be found by such as can read them to ...
Pàgina xx
... verses should be disposed of with the curt remark that they cant of shepherds and flocks and crooks dressed with flowers ' ; and if the fact that ' they exhibit a mode of life which does not exist , nor ever existed , ' is not to be ...
... verses should be disposed of with the curt remark that they cant of shepherds and flocks and crooks dressed with flowers ' ; and if the fact that ' they exhibit a mode of life which does not exist , nor ever existed , ' is not to be ...
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