Eighteenth-century English LiteratureGeoffrey Tillotson, Paul Fussell, Marshall Waingrow A survey of prose, poetry, and drama from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Treats major authors in depth but also includes lesser but important writers to give a completer picture of the century. |
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Page 216
... Verse , which he brought in , and the improvement he made in our Numbers . Before his time , men Rhym'd indeed , and that was all : as for the harmony of measure , and that dance of words , which good ears are so much pleas'd with ...
... Verse , which he brought in , and the improvement he made in our Numbers . Before his time , men Rhym'd indeed , and that was all : as for the harmony of measure , and that dance of words , which good ears are so much pleas'd with ...
Page 222
... verse . In 1707 the piratical publisher Curll brought out seventeen of Prior's previously printed poems under the conventional title Poems on Several Occasions . Prior , of course , repudiated the edition and went to work on his own ...
... verse . In 1707 the piratical publisher Curll brought out seventeen of Prior's previously printed poems under the conventional title Poems on Several Occasions . Prior , of course , repudiated the edition and went to work on his own ...
Page 675
... Verse chears their leisure , Verse assists their work , Verse prays for Peace , or sings down Pope and Turk . The silenc'd Preacher yields to potent strain , And feels that grace his pray'r besought in vain , The blessing thrills thro ...
... Verse chears their leisure , Verse assists their work , Verse prays for Peace , or sings down Pope and Turk . The silenc'd Preacher yields to potent strain , And feels that grace his pray'r besought in vain , The blessing thrills thro ...
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