Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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... writ , or which expresses so much the conversation of a gentleman , as Sir John Suckling ; nothing so even , sweet , and flowing , as Mr. Waller ; nothing so majestic , so correct , as Sir John Denham ; nothing so elevated , so copious ...
... writ , or which expresses so much the conversation of a gentleman , as Sir John Suckling ; nothing so even , sweet , and flowing , as Mr. Waller ; nothing so majestic , so correct , as Sir John Denham ; nothing so elevated , so copious ...
Page 187
... writ then as they are now , promiscuously , by the same person , but he who found his genius bending to the one , never attempted the other way . This so plain , that I need not instance to you that Aristophanes , Plautus , Terence ...
... writ then as they are now , promiscuously , by the same person , but he who found his genius bending to the one , never attempted the other way . This so plain , that I need not instance to you that Aristophanes , Plautus , Terence ...
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... writ in verse so tedious , for though most commonly the sense is to be confined to the couplet , yet nothing that does perpetuo tenore fluere , run in the same channel , can please always . " Tis like the murmuring of a stream , which ...
... writ in verse so tedious , for though most commonly the sense is to be confined to the couplet , yet nothing that does perpetuo tenore fluere , run in the same channel , can please always . " Tis like the murmuring of a stream , which ...
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