The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... rules not far enough extend , ( Since rules were made but to promote their end ) Some lucky licence answer to the full The intent proposed , that licence is a rule . Thus Pegasus , a nearer way to take , May boldly deviate from the ...
... rules not far enough extend , ( Since rules were made but to promote their end ) Some lucky licence answer to the full The intent proposed , that licence is a rule . Thus Pegasus , a nearer way to take , May boldly deviate from the ...
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... rules , abstractedly taken , end ; but where known vulgar and trite rules have no longer any place . It must of necessity be that even works of genius , like every other effect , as they must have their cause , must likewise have their ...
... rules , abstractedly taken , end ; but where known vulgar and trite rules have no longer any place . It must of necessity be that even works of genius , like every other effect , as they must have their cause , must likewise have their ...
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... rule . " If the rules be well considered , " Dryden quotes from Rapin , " we shall find them to be made only to reduce Nature into method , to trace her step by step , and not to suffer the least mark to escape us : ' tis only by these ...
... rule . " If the rules be well considered , " Dryden quotes from Rapin , " we shall find them to be made only to reduce Nature into method , to trace her step by step , and not to suffer the least mark to escape us : ' tis only by these ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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