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and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for
the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by
counting the syllables. ^ iS/Ofl^' If the father of criticism has rightly denominated ...
and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for
the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by
counting the syllables. ^ iS/Ofl^' If the father of criticism has rightly denominated ...
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... Sprat, that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his page, so
that the reader is commonly surprized into some improvement. But, considered
as the verses _oX_aJjaver^jno-. man that has ever loved will much commend
them.
... Sprat, that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his page, so
that the reader is commonly surprized into some improvement. But, considered
as the verses _oX_aJjaver^jno-. man that has ever loved will much commend
them.
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The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and
inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this ... His combination of different
measures is sometimes dissonanfapd unpTeasing ; he joins verses together, of
which the ...
The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and
inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this ... His combination of different
measures is sometimes dissonanfapd unpTeasing ; he joins verses together, of
which the ...
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vast ; it is to paint in the number the nature of the thing which it describes, which I
would have "observed in divers other places of this poem, "that else will pass for
very careless verses : as "before, And over-runs the neighb "ring fields with ...
vast ; it is to paint in the number the nature of the thing which it describes, which I
would have "observed in divers other places of this poem, "that else will pass for
very careless verses : as "before, And over-runs the neighb "ring fields with ...
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Verse can imitate only sound and motion A boundless verse, a headlong verse,
and a verse of brass or of strong brass, seem to comprise very incongruous and
unsociable ideas. What there is peculiar in the sound of the line expressing loose
...
Verse can imitate only sound and motion A boundless verse, a headlong verse,
and a verse of brass or of strong brass, seem to comprise very incongruous and
unsociable ideas. What there is peculiar in the sound of the line expressing loose
...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 10 Samuel Johnson,Alexander Chalmers,Arthur Murphy Vista completa - 1823 |
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