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Page 27
... winds when they fall , Nor voices Elysian , that came with a call . Then follow'd my Spenser , with five to his share , And the light - neighing trumpet leap'd freshly on air , • With preludes of flutes as to open a scene , 27.
... winds when they fall , Nor voices Elysian , that came with a call . Then follow'd my Spenser , with five to his share , And the light - neighing trumpet leap'd freshly on air , • With preludes of flutes as to open a scene , 27.
Page 35
... Spenser and Milton ; but if the author of the Rape of the Lock , of Eloisa to Abelard , and of the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , is no poet , then are fancy and feeling no properties belong- ing to poetry . I am only considering his ...
... Spenser and Milton ; but if the author of the Rape of the Lock , of Eloisa to Abelard , and of the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , is no poet , then are fancy and feeling no properties belong- ing to poetry . I am only considering his ...
Page 37
... the same unvaried measure and cadence , so the best poets , as Homer and Virgil among the ancients , Spenser and Milton among the moderns , often vary , not only in the pause of rope . Voltaire , who , agreeably to the genius 7 37.
... the same unvaried measure and cadence , so the best poets , as Homer and Virgil among the ancients , Spenser and Milton among the moderns , often vary , not only in the pause of rope . Voltaire , who , agreeably to the genius 7 37.
Page 42
... was much tempted to conclude it with some counter examples of real poetic harmony from the verses of Dryden , Spenser , and Milton ; not that the style of any great writer is to be imitated at a venture , or to be studied with any direct ...
... was much tempted to conclude it with some counter examples of real poetic harmony from the verses of Dryden , Spenser , and Milton ; not that the style of any great writer is to be imitated at a venture , or to be studied with any direct ...
Page 57
... Spenser , Milton , and Ariosto , than Pope , Boileau , and their followers ; the former will teach us to vary our music , and to address ourselves more directly to nature ; but nature herself is , of course , the great and perfecting ...
... Spenser , Milton , and Ariosto , than Pope , Boileau , and their followers ; the former will teach us to vary our music , and to address ourselves more directly to nature ; but nature herself is , of course , the great and perfecting ...
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