The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... rhyme , must , by a work so long , be made prompt and habitual ; and , when his thoughts were once ad- justed , the words would come at his command . At what particular times of his life the parts of his work were written , cannot often ...
... rhyme , must , by a work so long , be made prompt and habitual ; and , when his thoughts were once ad- justed , the words would come at his command . At what particular times of his life the parts of his work were written , cannot often ...
Page 63
... rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought , and violently applied . That in the early parts of his life he wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , bappily preserved at Cambridge , in which many of his smaller works ...
... rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought , and violently applied . That in the early parts of his life he wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , bappily preserved at Cambridge , in which many of his smaller works ...
Page 64
... rhymes uncertain , and the numbers unpleasing . What beauty there is , we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and ...
... rhymes uncertain , and the numbers unpleasing . What beauty there is , we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images . It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and ...
Page 69
... rhyming . The Spirit relates that the Lady is in the power of Comus ; the Brother moralizes again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration , of no use because it is false , and therefore unsuitable to a good Being . In all these parts ...
... rhyming . The Spirit relates that the Lady is in the power of Comus ; the Brother moralizes again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration , of no use because it is false , and therefore unsuitable to a good Being . In all these parts ...
Page 70
... rhymes to be often changed . Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care . I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; ' a poem , which , considered with respect to design , may claim the ...
... rhymes to be often changed . Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care . I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; ' a poem , which , considered with respect to design , may claim the ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.