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Page 43
... imitation at all ; but because in the best effusions of those writers are to be found the happiest spe- cimens of English versification , and such as with due regard to every man's own mode of thinking and speaking , might lead the ...
... imitation at all ; but because in the best effusions of those writers are to be found the happiest spe- cimens of English versification , and such as with due regard to every man's own mode of thinking and speaking , might lead the ...
Page 48
... imitation of not the best models , written in a style at once vague and elaborate . His Pleasures of Memory - a poem , at best , in imitation of Goldsmith - is writ- ten in the worst and most monotonous taste of modern versification ...
... imitation of not the best models , written in a style at once vague and elaborate . His Pleasures of Memory - a poem , at best , in imitation of Goldsmith - is writ- ten in the worst and most monotonous taste of modern versification ...
Page 56
... imitation of Virgil , Fairfax improved into a thought as new as it was beautiful— On Lebanon at first his foot he set , And shook his wings with rosy may - dews wet . Milton , passing over the original in this passage , copies the ...
... imitation of Virgil , Fairfax improved into a thought as new as it was beautiful— On Lebanon at first his foot he set , And shook his wings with rosy may - dews wet . Milton , passing over the original in this passage , copies the ...
Page 66
... imitation , an unnatural and affected one in Mr. Scott ; and , in fact , he talks the language of no times and of no feelings , for his style is too flowing to be ancient , too antique to be modern , and too artificial in every respect ...
... imitation , an unnatural and affected one in Mr. Scott ; and , in fact , he talks the language of no times and of no feelings , for his style is too flowing to be ancient , too antique to be modern , and too artificial in every respect ...
Page 67
... imitation , and got into the trammels of Spenser . The style , perhaps , is not so much in imitation of Spenser as of Thomson , the imitator of Spenser ; but the want of originality is certainly not lessen- ed by this remove from the ...
... imitation , and got into the trammels of Spenser . The style , perhaps , is not so much in imitation of Spenser as of Thomson , the imitator of Spenser ; but the want of originality is certainly not lessen- ed by this remove from the ...
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