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... studies , and in which he would attempt to reduce to prac- tice his own ideas of what is natural in style , and of the various and legitimate harmony of the English heroic . CONTENTS . Feast of the Poets , Notes to the.
... studies , and in which he would attempt to reduce to prac- tice his own ideas of what is natural in style , and of the various and legitimate harmony of the English heroic . CONTENTS . Feast of the Poets , Notes to the.
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... style , Look more like the morbid abstractions of bile ? There is one of you here - ' twas of him that I spoke- Who , instead of becoming a byword and joke , Should have brought back our fine old pre - eminent 4 * 23.
... style , Look more like the morbid abstractions of bile ? There is one of you here - ' twas of him that I spoke- Who , instead of becoming a byword and joke , Should have brought back our fine old pre - eminent 4 * 23.
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... style to himself . ( 3 ) But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses half up and half down , & c . The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying versification is not new ; but his succes- sors ...
... style to himself . ( 3 ) But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo - song verses half up and half down , & c . The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying versification is not new ; but his succes- sors ...
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... 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 42.
... 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 42.
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... style , than in any other English performance . It is still , however , a disgrace to English biogra- phy , that there is no life of our unrivalled coun- tryman , important enough from the size and the composition to do him justice ...
... style , than in any other English performance . It is still , however , a disgrace to English biogra- phy , that there is no life of our unrivalled coun- tryman , important enough from the size and the composition to do him justice ...
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