Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... reader may be excused for not knowing when he is not understanding . When Soames speaks of " labour'd Sense " and Granville of " pompous " verse , they intend to praise , and the alert reader will divine as much from context . But of ...
... reader may be excused for not knowing when he is not understanding . When Soames speaks of " labour'd Sense " and Granville of " pompous " verse , they intend to praise , and the alert reader will divine as much from context . But of ...
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... Reader rests happy , to heare the worthiest workes misin- terpreted ; the clearest actions obscured ; the innocent'st life tra- duc'd ; And in such a licence of lying , a field so fruitfull of slan- ders , how can there be matter ...
... Reader rests happy , to heare the worthiest workes misin- terpreted ; the clearest actions obscured ; the innocent'st life tra- duc'd ; And in such a licence of lying , a field so fruitfull of slan- ders , how can there be matter ...
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... Reader , then much matter and conceit compendiously digested with sufficiency of perspicuity . To conclude , lines of a farre fetcht and labour'd fancy with allusions and curiosity , and in similes of little more fruit or consequence ...
... Reader , then much matter and conceit compendiously digested with sufficiency of perspicuity . To conclude , lines of a farre fetcht and labour'd fancy with allusions and curiosity , and in similes of little more fruit or consequence ...
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