The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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... subjects , which are allowed the lyric poet , makes it necessary to confider this species of poetry under the following ... subject ; but the greatest part of them turn either upon love , contentment , or the pleasures of a country life ...
... subjects , which are allowed the lyric poet , makes it necessary to confider this species of poetry under the following ... subject ; but the greatest part of them turn either upon love , contentment , or the pleasures of a country life ...
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... subject , it would be doing him a fort of injuftice not . to let him appear with Mr. Dryden . Each of thefe odes , we may venture to fay , are written with a fpirit of poetry peculiar to the great genius of their refpective authors ...
... subject , it would be doing him a fort of injuftice not . to let him appear with Mr. Dryden . Each of thefe odes , we may venture to fay , are written with a fpirit of poetry peculiar to the great genius of their refpective authors ...
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... subject rough : But fatire must be more exactly made , And sharpeft thoughts in smootheft words convey'd . Duke of Bucks's ESSAY . Satires either of the jocofe or serious kind , may be writ- ten in the epiftolary manner , or by way of ...
... subject rough : But fatire must be more exactly made , And sharpeft thoughts in smootheft words convey'd . Duke of Bucks's ESSAY . Satires either of the jocofe or serious kind , may be writ- ten in the epiftolary manner , or by way of ...
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