Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... metrical arrangement . The phi- losophic critics of all ages coincide with the ultimate judgement of all countries , in equally denying the praises of a just poem , on the one hand , to a series of striking lines or distichs , each of ...
... metrical arrangement . The phi- losophic critics of all ages coincide with the ultimate judgement of all countries , in equally denying the praises of a just poem , on the one hand , to a series of striking lines or distichs , each of ...
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... metrical move- ment . Their measures , however , were not in- debted for their variety to the introduction of new metres , such as have been attempted of late in the " Alonzo and Imogen , " and others borrowed from the German , having ...
... metrical move- ment . Their measures , however , were not in- debted for their variety to the introduction of new metres , such as have been attempted of late in the " Alonzo and Imogen , " and others borrowed from the German , having ...
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... metrical composition , there neither is , nor can be any essential difference . " It is against these exclusively , that my opposition is directed . I object , in the very first instance , to an equivocation in the use of the word ...
... metrical composition , there neither is , nor can be any essential difference . " It is against these exclusively , that my opposition is directed . I object , in the very first instance , to an equivocation in the use of the word ...
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... Mr. Wordsworth himself from the song of Deborah . “ At her feet he bowed , he fell , he lay down ; at her feet he bowed , he fell ; where he bowed , there he fell down dead . " CHAPTER XVIII . Language of metrical composition , why and 56.
... Mr. Wordsworth himself from the song of Deborah . “ At her feet he bowed , he fell , he lay down ; at her feet he bowed , he fell ; where he bowed , there he fell down dead . " CHAPTER XVIII . Language of metrical composition , why and 56.
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... metrical writer in the choice of his diction . I conclude therefore , that the attempt is im- practicable ; and that , were it not impractica- ble , it would still be useless . For the very power of making the selection implies the pre ...
... metrical writer in the choice of his diction . I conclude therefore , that the attempt is im- practicable ; and that , were it not impractica- ble , it would still be useless . For the very power of making the selection implies the pre ...
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