Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 2C. Knight & Company, 1845 - English language |
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... fancy , is both deficient in richness or even variety of modula- tion , and without any pretensions to the force and fire of original poetic genius . It may be true , nevertheless , as is conceded by Mr. Collier , one of the modern ...
... fancy , is both deficient in richness or even variety of modula- tion , and without any pretensions to the force and fire of original poetic genius . It may be true , nevertheless , as is conceded by Mr. Collier , one of the modern ...
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... fancy , and prettiness , occasionally , both in the expression and the thought . Although Lyly , in his verse as well as in his prose , is always artificial to excess , his ingenuity and finished elegance are frequently very captivating ...
... fancy , and prettiness , occasionally , both in the expression and the thought . Although Lyly , in his verse as well as in his prose , is always artificial to excess , his ingenuity and finished elegance are frequently very captivating ...
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... fancy . And the attempt to mould English verse into the form of Latin ( which long after- wards exercised the ingenuity of Milton , and which has been revived in our own day ) continued to engage some attention down to the close of the ...
... fancy . And the attempt to mould English verse into the form of Latin ( which long after- wards exercised the ingenuity of Milton , and which has been revived in our own day ) continued to engage some attention down to the close of the ...
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... fancy I never did better . " And Harvey congratulates him on nine ' Comedies , ' which he had either written , or was engaged with : - " I am void of all judgment if your Nine Come- dies , whereunto , in imitation of Herodotus , you ...
... fancy I never did better . " And Harvey congratulates him on nine ' Comedies , ' which he had either written , or was engaged with : - " I am void of all judgment if your Nine Come- dies , whereunto , in imitation of Herodotus , you ...
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... fancy and inven- tion at once the most just and spirited , and the most easy and copious - altogether so as to betoken a poet such as had not yet arisen in the language since it had settled down into its existing form . This earliest ...
... fancy and inven- tion at once the most just and spirited , and the most easy and copious - altogether so as to betoken a poet such as had not yet arisen in the language since it had settled down into its existing form . This earliest ...
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