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Page 95
Others have no ear for verfe , nor choice of words , nor distinction of thoughts ; but mingle farthings with their gold to make up the fum . Here is a field of fatire opened to me : but , fince the Revolution , I have wholly renounced ...
Others have no ear for verfe , nor choice of words , nor distinction of thoughts ; but mingle farthings with their gold to make up the fum . Here is a field of fatire opened to me : but , fince the Revolution , I have wholly renounced ...
Page 115
... and almost always forced ; and befides , is full of conception , points of Epigram and witticism ; all which are not only below the dignity of Heroic Verfe , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and Homer have not one of them .
... and almost always forced ; and befides , is full of conception , points of Epigram and witticism ; all which are not only below the dignity of Heroic Verfe , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and Homer have not one of them .
Page 118
Neither will I juftify Milton for this blank verfe , though I may excufe him , by the example of Hannibal Caro , and other Italians , who have used it : for whatever caufes he alledges for the abolishing of rhyme ( which I have not now ...
Neither will I juftify Milton for this blank verfe , though I may excufe him , by the example of Hannibal Caro , and other Italians , who have used it : for whatever caufes he alledges for the abolishing of rhyme ( which I have not now ...
Page 136
After God had curfed Adam and Eve in Paradife , the hufband and wife excufed themselves , by laying the blame on one another ; and gave a beginning to thofe conjugal dialogues in profe , which the Poets have perfected in verfe .
After God had curfed Adam and Eve in Paradife , the hufband and wife excufed themselves , by laying the blame on one another ; and gave a beginning to thofe conjugal dialogues in profe , which the Poets have perfected in verfe .
Page 138
... yet had certainly young men , who , at their feftivals , danced and fung after their uncouth manner , to a certain kind of verfe , which they called Saturnian : what it was , we have no certain light from antiquity to difcover ...
... yet had certainly young men , who , at their feftivals , danced and fung after their uncouth manner , to a certain kind of verfe , which they called Saturnian : what it was , we have no certain light from antiquity to difcover ...
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 11 |
| Author | John Dryden |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) |
| Publisher | J. Rivington, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 366 pages |
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