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" ... 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 enable their audience... "
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Page 199
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...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 enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin....
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Literary Studies from the Great British Authors

Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 pages
...variety of pauses, so iimch 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 happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive so where the lines end or begin. Blank...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's ..., Volume 4; Volumes 1780-1784

James Boswell - 1887 - 466 pages
...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 enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin....
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776 ...

James Boswell - 1887 - 470 pages
...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 enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin....
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Select Essays of Dr. Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 pages
...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 enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin....
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 56

1892 - 748 pages
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 56

1948 - 752 pages
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Milton, with an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...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 enable their audience to perceive 30 where the lines end or...
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Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...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 enable their audience to perceive 10 where the lines end or...
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Lives of Milton and Addison

Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the 20 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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