Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... , nature , or novelty ; the diction is fometimes harsh and uncouth , the stanzas ill - constructed and unpleasant , and the rhymes diffonant , or unfkilfully dif B pofed , pofed , too distant from each other , or arranged AKEN SIDE . 17.
... , nature , or novelty ; the diction is fometimes harsh and uncouth , the stanzas ill - constructed and unpleasant , and the rhymes diffonant , or unfkilfully dif B pofed , pofed , too distant from each other , or arranged AKEN SIDE . 17.
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... , nature , or novelty ; the diction is fometimes harsh and uncouth , the stanzas ill - constructed and unpleasant , and the rhymes diffonant , or unfkilfully dif pofed , B pofed , too distant from each other , or arranged AKEN SIDE . 17.
... , nature , or novelty ; the diction is fometimes harsh and uncouth , the stanzas ill - constructed and unpleasant , and the rhymes diffonant , or unfkilfully dif pofed , B pofed , too distant from each other , or arranged AKEN SIDE . 17.
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... stanza of the Progrefs of Poetry . Gray feems in his rapture to confound the images of Spreading found and run- ning water . A fiream of mufick may be allowed ; but where does Mufich , however Smooth and firong , after having visited ...
... stanza of the Progrefs of Poetry . Gray feems in his rapture to confound the images of Spreading found and run- ning water . A fiream of mufick may be allowed ; but where does Mufich , however Smooth and firong , after having visited ...
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... stanza the Bard is well described ; but in the third we have the puerilities of obfolete mythology . When we are told that Cadwallo hufh'd the ftormy main , and that Modred made huge Plin- limmon limmon bow his cloud - top'd head ...
... stanza the Bard is well described ; but in the third we have the puerilities of obfolete mythology . When we are told that Cadwallo hufh'd the ftormy main , and that Modred made huge Plin- limmon limmon bow his cloud - top'd head ...
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... Stanzas are loft . ] * Here the ftory finishes ; the exclamation of the Ghofts which follows is cnaracteristic of the Spanish manners of the age , when they are fuppofed to have lived ; and the 500 fianzas , said to be loft , may be ...
... Stanzas are loft . ] * Here the ftory finishes ; the exclamation of the Ghofts which follows is cnaracteristic of the Spanish manners of the age , when they are fuppofed to have lived ; and the 500 fianzas , said to be loft , may be ...
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