Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1Garland Pub., 1970 - English literature |
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Page 106
... sonnets of Milton , like those of Dante , are frequently deficient in sweetness of diction and harmony of versification , yet they possess , what seldom is discernable in compositions of this kind , energy and sublimity of sentiment ...
... sonnets of Milton , like those of Dante , are frequently deficient in sweetness of diction and harmony of versification , yet they possess , what seldom is discernable in compositions of this kind , energy and sublimity of sentiment ...
Page 110
... sonnets being truly elegant and interesting ; but none of the spanish poets , in this province of the muse , rival the efforts of Lupcrcio Leonardo de Argensola and his brother Bartolome . These very amiable relations lived in the six ...
... sonnets being truly elegant and interesting ; but none of the spanish poets , in this province of the muse , rival the efforts of Lupcrcio Leonardo de Argensola and his brother Bartolome . These very amiable relations lived in the six ...
Page 114
... sonnets which are appended to these observations , are merely introduced here in pursuance of the plan chalked out in the preface , and with no presumptious idea of their challenging a comparison with the definition of Lorenzo . Since ...
... sonnets which are appended to these observations , are merely introduced here in pursuance of the plan chalked out in the preface , and with no presumptious idea of their challenging a comparison with the definition of Lorenzo . Since ...
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