Elements of Criticism..Charles Ingham, in Skinner Row, 1772 - Criticism |
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... poem , fo eminent for variety in his verfification . Who can doubt , that , in this paffage , he has been led by delicacy of tafte to employ the first order preferably to the others ? Second order . Our humble province is to tend the ...
... poem , fo eminent for variety in his verfification . Who can doubt , that , in this paffage , he has been led by delicacy of tafte to employ the first order preferably to the others ? Second order . Our humble province is to tend the ...
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... poets of genius , in their ferious and grave compofitions , as well as in those which are more light and airy . Here ... poem is in rhyme ; but are extremely remarkable by contrast , in the couplets that clofe the feveral acts of our ...
... poets of genius , in their ferious and grave compofitions , as well as in those which are more light and airy . Here ... poem is in rhyme ; but are extremely remarkable by contrast , in the couplets that clofe the feveral acts of our ...
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... utmost elevation . A happy thought or warm ex- preffion , may at times give a fudden bound upward ; but it requires a genius greater than has hitherto exift- ed , ed , to fupport a poem of any length in 110 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII.
... utmost elevation . A happy thought or warm ex- preffion , may at times give a fudden bound upward ; but it requires a genius greater than has hitherto exift- ed , ed , to fupport a poem of any length in 110 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII.
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... poem in that language ... The chearing and enlivening power of rhyme , is ftill more remarkable in poems of fhort lines , where the rhymes return upon the ear in a quick fucceffion ; and for that reafon , rhyme is perfectly well adapted ...
... poem in that language ... The chearing and enlivening power of rhyme , is ftill more remarkable in poems of fhort lines , where the rhymes return upon the ear in a quick fucceffion ; and for that reafon , rhyme is perfectly well adapted ...
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... poems of every nation , we find metaphors and fimiles founded on flight and diftant refemblances , which , lofing their grace with their novelty , wear gradually out of repute ; and now , by the improvement of tafte , no metaphor nor ...
... poems of every nation , we find metaphors and fimiles founded on flight and diftant refemblances , which , lofing their grace with their novelty , wear gradually out of repute ; and now , by the improvement of tafte , no metaphor nor ...
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