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John Dryden. COMMENTARY ON THE VERSE TRANSLATIONS Dryden's verse translations of Chaucer and the Roman poets are neither " ponies " for schoolboys uncertain of their phi- lology nor ... VERSE TRANSLATIONS Commentary on the Verse Translations.
John Dryden. COMMENTARY ON THE VERSE TRANSLATIONS Dryden's verse translations of Chaucer and the Roman poets are neither " ponies " for schoolboys uncertain of their phi- lology nor ... VERSE TRANSLATIONS Commentary on the Verse Translations.
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... verse , and Virgil needed not verse to have bounded his . " In our own language we see Ben Jonson confining himself to what ought to be said , even in the liberty of blank verse ; and yet Corneille , the most judicious of the French ...
... verse , and Virgil needed not verse to have bounded his . " In our own language we see Ben Jonson confining himself to what ought to be said , even in the liberty of blank verse ; and yet Corneille , the most judicious of the French ...
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... verse , which you have gone about to overthrow . It had for- merly been said that the easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant , but that the labour of rhyme bounds and circumscribes an over - fruitful fancy ; the sense ...
... verse , which you have gone about to overthrow . It had for- merly been said that the easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant , but that the labour of rhyme bounds and circumscribes an over - fruitful fancy ; the sense ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneid ALEXAS ancient Anne Killigrew ANTONY Aristotle audience bear beauty Ben Jonson betwixt blank verse Boccace Caesar Canterbury Tales CHARMION Chaucer Church CLEOPATRA comedy Crites dare death DOLABELLA Dryden English EPILOGUE Eugenius ev'n ev'ry eyes fame fate father fear Fletcher foes French give grace haste Heaven honour Horace humour IRAS Jebusites John Dryden Jonson judge kind king leave Lisideius live look lord lost lovers Mac Flecknoe mistress Muse nature never numbers o'er OCTAVIA Ovid pains passion peace persons plain play plot poem poesy poet poetry pow'r praise priests PROLOGUE queen reason rhyme Roman Rome ruin satire scene SERAPION Shakespeare sigh sight Silent Woman soul speak stage sweet thee things thou thought thro tion tragedies translated truth VENTIDIUS Virgil words writ write youth