English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... ancient , the 1695 other modern . The ancient marked the quantity of each syl- lable , and according to that framed his verse ; the modern observing only number , with some regard of the accent , the chief life of it standeth in that ...
... ancient , the 1695 other modern . The ancient marked the quantity of each syl- lable , and according to that framed his verse ; the modern observing only number , with some regard of the accent , the chief life of it standeth in that ...
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... ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they . Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made . These leave the sense , their learning to display , And those explain the ...
... ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they . Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made . These leave the sense , their learning to display , And those explain the ...
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... ancient Genius , o'er its ruins spread , Shakes off the dust , and rears his rev'rend head . Then Sculpture and her sister - arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form , and rocks began to live ; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung ; A ...
... ancient Genius , o'er its ruins spread , Shakes off the dust , and rears his rev'rend head . Then Sculpture and her sister - arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form , and rocks began to live ; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung ; A ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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