The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... sounds which every native gives it , that he need make no provi- sion before his journey ; and if strangers visit us , it is their business to practise such conformity to our modes as they expect from us in their own coun- tries ...
... sounds which every native gives it , that he need make no provi- sion before his journey ; and if strangers visit us , it is their business to practise such conformity to our modes as they expect from us in their own coun- tries ...
Page 62
... sounds , would voluntarily commit them to memory . To this gentlewoman Addison made a present , and promised some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but ...
... sounds , would voluntarily commit them to memory . To this gentlewoman Addison made a present , and promised some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but ...
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... sounds only procured a conditional release . For the old age of Cheerfulness he makes no pro- vision ; but Melancholy he conducts with great dig- nity to the close of life . His Cheerfulness is with- out levity , and his Pensiveness ...
... sounds only procured a conditional release . For the old age of Cheerfulness he makes no pro- vision ; but Melancholy he conducts with great dig- nity to the close of life . His Cheerfulness is with- out levity , and his Pensiveness ...
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... distinguished all the delicacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation . Bossu is of opinion , that the poet's first work 70 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... distinguished all the delicacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation . Bossu is of opinion , that the poet's first work 70 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... sounds and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme . The variety of pauses , so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a ; declaimer ; and there ...
... sounds and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme . The variety of pauses , so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse , changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a ; declaimer ; and there ...
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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.