...remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful...from prose had been rarely attempted : we had few 30 elegancies or flowers of speech ; the roses had not yet been plucked from the bramble, or different...

...of life and the habits of thought. Virgil wrote in 1 'Before the time of Dryden,' writes Johnson, ' those happy combinations of words which distinguish poetry from prose had been rarely attempted.' Ante, DRYDEN, 221. See also ante, POPE, 13 ; post, 374. Pope, writing of Dryden's version of ' the...

...remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful...poetry from prose had been rarely attempted; we had few elegancies or flowers of speech. The roses had not yet been plucked from the bramble, or different...

...remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful...poetry from prose had been rarely attempted; we had few elegancies or flowers of speech. The roses had not yet been plucked from the bramble, or different...

...remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful...poetry from prose had been rarely attempted; we had few elegancies or flowers of speech. The roses had not yet been plucked from the bramble, or different...

...remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful...words which distinguish poetry from prose had been rarely-attempted ; we had few elegancies or flowers of speech. The roses had not yet been plucked from...

...remote defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful...distinguish poetry from prose, had been rarely attempted " 1 before Dryden's time. With these principles Addison was thoroughly in accord. " The Italian poets,...

...defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do no: easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images...which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur. 30 draw that attention on themselves which they should transmi; to things. Those happy combinations...

...purpose of the poet. Happy com binations of words. Language the dress of thought. Unrefined and plebeian do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful...to things. Those happy combinations of words which distinguished poetry from prose had been rarely attempted ; we had few elegances or flowers of speech,...

...too remote , i, • defeat the sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we purpose of do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful...on themselves which they should transmit to things. Happy com- Those happy combinations of words which distinguished w'ord'°"5 ° poetry from prose had...