Letters Concerning Poetical Translations, and Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c.. |
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... head of a feparate Sentence , are governed by one Antecedent , or feveral Verbs by one Nominative Cafe , to the close of the Period . Thus in Homer : " Goddess , fing the pernicious Anger of Achil " les , which brought infinite Woes to ...
... head of a feparate Sentence , are governed by one Antecedent , or feveral Verbs by one Nominative Cafe , to the close of the Period . Thus in Homer : " Goddess , fing the pernicious Anger of Achil " les , which brought infinite Woes to ...
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... Head , who came with it . Cowley . Here are ten dull Words moft certainly in one dull Line . " To take off his great Head , who came with it . And miserable is the Metre in which they creep on . But hundreds of monofyllable Lines are to ...
... Head , who came with it . Cowley . Here are ten dull Words moft certainly in one dull Line . " To take off his great Head , who came with it . And miserable is the Metre in which they creep on . But hundreds of monofyllable Lines are to ...
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... Heads as I have confidered Vir- gil's , fo far as there is Opportunity of doing it . I. To begin with The Varying of the Pause , which is the Soul of all Verfification in all Languages . Verfe is Mufick , and Mufick is more or lefs ...
... Heads as I have confidered Vir- gil's , fo far as there is Opportunity of doing it . I. To begin with The Varying of the Pause , which is the Soul of all Verfification in all Languages . Verfe is Mufick , and Mufick is more or lefs ...
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... Heads triumphant Death his Dart " Shook . This Paffage makes the Reader fee Death with his Dart in his Hand , fhaking it over the Heads of the unhappy Creatures describ'd in the Lazar - boufe , as plainly as if the whole was painted ...
... Heads triumphant Death his Dart " Shook . This Paffage makes the Reader fee Death with his Dart in his Hand , fhaking it over the Heads of the unhappy Creatures describ'd in the Lazar - boufe , as plainly as if the whole was painted ...
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... Head , and nods to every Wound . Sir Philip Sidney , who was very unhappy in Ver- fification , feems to have defpifed this Beauty in Verfe , and even to have thought it an Excellence to fix the Pause always in one Place , namely at the ...
... Head , and nods to every Wound . Sir Philip Sidney , who was very unhappy in Ver- fification , feems to have defpifed this Beauty in Verfe , and even to have thought it an Excellence to fix the Pause always in one Place , namely at the ...
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Page 44 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds...
Page 40 - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe. With lofs of Eden, till one greater Man Reftore us, and regain the blifsful feat, 5 Sing, heav'nly Mufe, that on the fecret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didft infpire That fhepherd, who firft taught the chofen feed...
Page 8 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 42 - In loss itself : which on his countenance cast Like doubtful hue. But he, his wonted pride Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore Semblance of worth, not substance, gently raised Their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears. Then straight commands, that, at the warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions, be upreared His mighty standard. That proud honour claimed Azazel as his right, a Cherub tall...
Page 70 - The Lord, ye know, is God indeed ; Without our aid he did us make : We are his flock, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.
Page 81 - And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
Page 43 - In jointed armour watch : on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play ; part, huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean : there Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.
Page 54 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally, he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 49 - Manlike, but different fex, fo lovely fair, That what feem'd fair in all the world, feem'd now Mean, or in her fumm'd up, in her contain'd And in her looks...
Page 44 - Rocks, dens, and caves ! But I in none of these Find place or refuge ; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel...