John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 63
... cadences . James Beattie , in his Essay on Poetry and Music as They Affect the Mind ( 1776 ) , followed Webb ; and Dr. Johnson , in his lives of Cowley and Pope , enunciated the distinction most forcibly of all . At its highest ...
... cadences . James Beattie , in his Essay on Poetry and Music as They Affect the Mind ( 1776 ) , followed Webb ; and Dr. Johnson , in his lives of Cowley and Pope , enunciated the distinction most forcibly of all . At its highest ...
Page 66
... cadences in the satires and the epistles . But nothing is more natural than that his best music should be heard in ... cadence of the close breathes consolation . Such passages are worth , as poetry , a thousand Camillas and all the ...
... cadences in the satires and the epistles . But nothing is more natural than that his best music should be heard in ... cadence of the close breathes consolation . Such passages are worth , as poetry , a thousand Camillas and all the ...
Page 196
... cadences be not observed in the pronunciation . So that almost all their sweetness and nu- merosity ( which is to be found , if I mistake not , in the roughest , if rightly repeated ) lies in a manner wholly at the mercy of the reader ...
... cadences be not observed in the pronunciation . So that almost all their sweetness and nu- merosity ( which is to be found , if I mistake not , in the roughest , if rightly repeated ) lies in a manner wholly at the mercy of the reader ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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