The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... reader . By this handle it is , that an author should seize upon his readers ; which as soon as he has once compassed , all resistance and struggling are in vain , and they become his prisoners as close as he pleases , till weariness or ...
... reader . By this handle it is , that an author should seize upon his readers ; which as soon as he has once compassed , all resistance and struggling are in vain , and they become his prisoners as close as he pleases , till weariness or ...
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... reader's mind with a circumstance new and unexpected . But notwithstanding the plan and conduct of Spenser in the poem before us is highly exception- able , yet we may venture to pronounce that the scholar has more merit than his master ...
... reader's mind with a circumstance new and unexpected . But notwithstanding the plan and conduct of Spenser in the poem before us is highly exception- able , yet we may venture to pronounce that the scholar has more merit than his master ...
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... reader will know that actually there is no necessary cause of emo- tion in the writer : what is " in " him at the ... reader . The rhymes occur unpredictably , with the result that the reader , naturally expecting rhyming at established ...
... reader will know that actually there is no necessary cause of emo- tion in the writer : what is " in " him at the ... reader . The rhymes occur unpredictably , with the result that the reader , naturally expecting rhyming at established ...
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Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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