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This tragedy is written in versi sciolti , or blank verse ; and the fable is conducted in a regular manner , on the model of the antient Greeks , with odes , and an attendant moralizing chorus . It abounds with pathos , and beautiful ...
This tragedy is written in versi sciolti , or blank verse ; and the fable is conducted in a regular manner , on the model of the antient Greeks , with odes , and an attendant moralizing chorus . It abounds with pathos , and beautiful ...
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Alamanni , a studious refiner of blank verse , wrote a tragedy about this time ( 1530 ) in imitation of the Antigone of Sophocles ; -and a didactie poem in the same measure , entitled La Cultivazione , published at Paris , whither ...
Alamanni , a studious refiner of blank verse , wrote a tragedy about this time ( 1530 ) in imitation of the Antigone of Sophocles ; -and a didactie poem in the same measure , entitled La Cultivazione , published at Paris , whither ...
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These zealous defenders of Milton are very angry with Dr. Johnson for ridiculing his sour temper and severe politics , though the Doctor has praised the Paradise Lost in prose nearly equal to the verse of that immortal poem .
These zealous defenders of Milton are very angry with Dr. Johnson for ridiculing his sour temper and severe politics , though the Doctor has praised the Paradise Lost in prose nearly equal to the verse of that immortal poem .
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The Italian rhymes being all double , the junction of two verses of 7 syllables each makes their Alexandrine 14 syllables ; though our heroic verse , and that of France , contain but twelve , The translation of Addison's Cato into ...
The Italian rhymes being all double , the junction of two verses of 7 syllables each makes their Alexandrine 14 syllables ; though our heroic verse , and that of France , contain but twelve , The translation of Addison's Cato into ...
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... been duped by various oracles , began to suspect their infallibility , and to obeerve that they made bad verses : he resolved to try their powers of divination before he put himself to any farther expence in costly offerings .
... been duped by various oracles , began to suspect their infallibility , and to obeerve that they made bad verses : he resolved to try their powers of divination before he put himself to any farther expence in costly offerings .
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| Title | The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal Volumes 1215-1247 of Early English newspapers Volumes 384-432 of English literary periodicals |
| Contributors | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths |
| Publisher | R. Griffiths, 1799 |
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