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Page 279
... verse ; and he appeals to the authority and example of some of our best poets to sanction his choice . On this question we shall not dilate ; every age has its favourite fancies in matters of taste ; and we think that we discover , in ...
... verse ; and he appeals to the authority and example of some of our best poets to sanction his choice . On this question we shall not dilate ; every age has its favourite fancies in matters of taste ; and we think that we discover , in ...
Page 293
... verses , used by the comic writers , they being of an uniform structure , it can have no place . Accord- ingly the latter are scarcely discriminated from prose . And that the ... verse to Harpur's Essay on Philosophical Criticism . 293.
... verses , used by the comic writers , they being of an uniform structure , it can have no place . Accord- ingly the latter are scarcely discriminated from prose . And that the ... verse to Harpur's Essay on Philosophical Criticism . 293.
Page 294
... verse , if printed as prose , would not , without some consideration , be distinguishable from it . But let English rhymed couplets or Latin hexameters be printed as prose , and their metrical distinction will be immediately and ...
... verse , if printed as prose , would not , without some consideration , be distinguishable from it . But let English rhymed couplets or Latin hexameters be printed as prose , and their metrical distinction will be immediately and ...
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