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exist of any remarkable essay in dramatic poetry , before the time of Gil Vicente , who will hereafter be noticed . It is probable that unimportant treatises on poetry and versification , in the style of that which Juan del Enzina wrote ...
exist of any remarkable essay in dramatic poetry , before the time of Gil Vicente , who will hereafter be noticed . It is probable that unimportant treatises on poetry and versification , in the style of that which Juan del Enzina wrote ...
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... poet of such fine genius as Cowper , should have been so insensible to the various excel- lencies of these pieces as to say that Pope made poetry a " mere . mechanic art , " is to us perfectly incomprehensible . That every warbler has ...
... poet of such fine genius as Cowper , should have been so insensible to the various excel- lencies of these pieces as to say that Pope made poetry a " mere . mechanic art , " is to us perfectly incomprehensible . That every warbler has ...
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... poetry ; an utter absence of all meretricious charms ; words that simply breathe his thoughts ; —and it is the want of this chasteness and severity which sometimes alloys , we think , the sweetness of Mr. Bowring's poetry . We have ...
... poetry ; an utter absence of all meretricious charms ; words that simply breathe his thoughts ; —and it is the want of this chasteness and severity which sometimes alloys , we think , the sweetness of Mr. Bowring's poetry . We have ...
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