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" ... and preserved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ... - Page 266
by Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 503 pages
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...prefervation of every verfe unmingled with another, as a diftinA fyftem of founds,- and this diflin&nefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme....the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few fkilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin....
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...founds; and this diftinctnefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of paules, fo much boafted by the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafures of an Englim poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few fkilful and happy readers of Milton,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...diftinctnefs is obtained and preferred by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of paufes, fo much bo?.fted by the lovers of blank. verfe, changes the meafures...the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few Ikiiful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to pereeive where the lines end or begin....
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...prefervation of every vcrfe unmingled with another as a diftinct fyilem of founds ; and this diftiactnefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of paufes, fo much bcaftcJ by the. lovers oC blank veric, changes the rneafures of an Englifh poet $o the periods of a...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 79

1788 - 750 pages
...probability!, and good declamation, as rhyme. Pr. Johnlon has fdid, in his Lives of the Poets, that " the variety of paufes fo much boafted by the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafure of an Englifh poet to the periods o; declamation." And on this text our author feems to preach....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...co-operation can be only obtained by the prefervation of every verfe unmingled with another as a diftinct fyftem of founds; and this diftinctnefs is obtained...the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...prefervation of every verfe unmingled with another, as a diftinct fyftem of founds; and this diftin<5tnefs is obtained and preferved by the artifice of rhyme....of blank verfe, changes the meafures of an Englifh pdet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few fkilful and happy readers of Milton,...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lover? of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin....
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...variety of pauses, so null boastetl by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English port to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. • rse, said...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...co-operation can be only obtained by the prefervation of every verfe unmingled with another as a diftinct fyftem of founds ; and this diftinctnefs is obtained...artifice of rhyme. The variety of paufes, fo much boalted by the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafures of an Englifh poet to the periods of a declaimer...
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