The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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Pagina 78
... poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform- ance : the numbers are ... blank verse . " COOPER'S HILL , " if it be maliciously inspected , * By Garth , in his " Poem on Claremont : " and ...
... poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform- ance : the numbers are ... blank verse . " COOPER'S HILL , " if it be maliciously inspected , * By Garth , in his " Poem on Claremont : " and ...
Pagina 180
... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
Pagina 181
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critick , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support ...
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critick , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support ...
Pagina 182
... blank verse ; but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme . The highest praise of genius is original invention . Milton cannot be said to have contrived the structure of an epick poem , and therefore owes reverence to ...
... blank verse ; but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme . The highest praise of genius is original invention . Milton cannot be said to have contrived the structure of an epick poem , and therefore owes reverence to ...
Pagina 220
... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem , frigidly di- dactick , without rhyme , is so near to prose ...
... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem , frigidly di- dactick , without rhyme , is so near to prose ...
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