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Pàgina xi
... verse ' ; and most of us think that , given the mass of English poetry to choose from , we can hit upon more ' poetical paragraphs ' than the well - known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said ...
... verse ' ; and most of us think that , given the mass of English poetry to choose from , we can hit upon more ' poetical paragraphs ' than the well - known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said ...
Pàgina xii
... verse , his disgust at Lycidas , his contempt for Gray's Odes , if we cannot share , we can , to some extent at least , explain by a consideration of the general canons of criticism disclosed in the Lives . Criticism , then , according ...
... verse , his disgust at Lycidas , his contempt for Gray's Odes , if we cannot share , we can , to some extent at least , explain by a consideration of the general canons of criticism disclosed in the Lives . Criticism , then , according ...
Pàgina xiv
... verses , enchain philosophy , suspend criticism , and oppress judgment by overpowering pleasure . ' And while on the one hand Johnson seems to insist that not the subject but its treatment discovers the poet , on the other he is ever ...
... verses , enchain philosophy , suspend criticism , and oppress judgment by overpowering pleasure . ' And while on the one hand Johnson seems to insist that not the subject but its treatment discovers the poet , on the other he is ever ...
Pàgina xvii
... verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for dramatic composi- tion , and may be employed by him that thinks himself capable of astonishing . But those that hope only to please must con- descend to rhyme ...
... verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for dramatic composi- tion , and may be employed by him that thinks himself capable of astonishing . But those that hope only to please must con- descend to rhyme ...
Pàgina xviii
... verse , subsequent to Milton , seem to have proceeded on the assumption that ' not to write prose is certainly to write poetry . ' It is merely the truth to say of them that their blank verses will be found by such as can read them to ...
... verse , subsequent to Milton , seem to have proceeded on the assumption that ' not to write prose is certainly to write poetry . ' It is merely the truth to say of them that their blank verses will be found by such as can read them to ...
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