Lectures on the English Comic WritersG. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1951 - 248 oldal |
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61. oldal
... poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the ...
... poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the ...
62. oldal
... poetry - they thought anything was poetry that differed from ordinary prose and the natural impression of things , by being intricate , far - fetched , and improb- able . Their style was not so properly learned as meta- physical ; that ...
... poetry - they thought anything was poetry that differed from ordinary prose and the natural impression of things , by being intricate , far - fetched , and improb- able . Their style was not so properly learned as meta- physical ; that ...
95. oldal
... poetry is frigid and jejune to an unaccountable degree . His forte was the description of actual manners , whether elegant or absurd ; and when he could not deride the one or embellish the other , his attempts at romantic passion or ...
... poetry is frigid and jejune to an unaccountable degree . His forte was the description of actual manners , whether elegant or absurd ; and when he could not deride the one or embellish the other , his attempts at romantic passion or ...
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