The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... sound effects like alliteration and assonance further con- tributes to the variety and melodic pleasure of reading Pope . The section on representative meter in An Essay on Criticism is justly famous for practicing what it preaches ...
... sound effects like alliteration and assonance further con- tributes to the variety and melodic pleasure of reading Pope . The section on representative meter in An Essay on Criticism is justly famous for practicing what it preaches ...
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... sounds big with Delphi , and Egean , and Ilissus , and Meander , and " hallowed fountain " and " solemn sound " ; but in all Gray's odes there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away . His position is at last false : in the ...
... sounds big with Delphi , and Egean , and Ilissus , and Meander , and " hallowed fountain " and " solemn sound " ; but in all Gray's odes there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away . His position is at last false : in the ...
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... sound so dreary . Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rooked in the spire , screams loud ; the gloomy aisles , Black - plastered , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And tattered coats of arms , send back ...
... sound so dreary . Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rooked in the spire , screams loud ; the gloomy aisles , Black - plastered , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And tattered coats of arms , send back ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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