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Page 34
... content to keep the beaten track , and set a proper example to neither . By these appeals , however , the public ear has been excited to expect something better ; and perhaps there never was a more favourable time than the present 34.
... content to keep the beaten track , and set a proper example to neither . By these appeals , however , the public ear has been excited to expect something better ; and perhaps there never was a more favourable time than the present 34.
Page 36
... proper and smaller sense of his ments as a poet , were nevertheless equally agreed , hat See particularly the life of Dryden , where he praises at ex- cellent versifier for knowing how to vary his pauses an adjust his accents ; " and ...
... proper and smaller sense of his ments as a poet , were nevertheless equally agreed , hat See particularly the life of Dryden , where he praises at ex- cellent versifier for knowing how to vary his pauses an adjust his accents ; " and ...
Page 43
... proper mixture of sweetness and strength - of modern finish and ancient variety , from which Pope and his rhyming facilities have so long withheld us . ( 4 ) Not though I collected one pattern victorious Of all that was good , and ...
... proper mixture of sweetness and strength - of modern finish and ancient variety , from which Pope and his rhyming facilities have so long withheld us . ( 4 ) Not though I collected one pattern victorious Of all that was good , and ...
Page 45
... proper management ; no subject , it is evident , could be more justly provocative of elegant reflec- tion and illustration ; and a compact , lively volume , written by one who was learned enough to enter into the language of his hero ...
... proper management ; no subject , it is evident , could be more justly provocative of elegant reflec- tion and illustration ; and a compact , lively volume , written by one who was learned enough to enter into the language of his hero ...
Page 66
... proper costume , and to talk in the language of previous times , we should in vain have looked for those natural bursts of passion , and all those affecting simplicities , which they were enabled to put in the mouths of others , by ...
... proper costume , and to talk in the language of previous times , we should in vain have looked for those natural bursts of passion , and all those affecting simplicities , which they were enabled to put in the mouths of others , by ...
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