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... rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in blank verse ; particularly one tending to ... rhyme , was de- sirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no ...
... rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in blank verse ; particularly one tending to ... rhyme , was de- sirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no ...
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... rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself . Blank verse makes some ap- proach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
... rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself . Blank verse makes some ap- proach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
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... rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with sufficient cer- tainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the Indian Queen , a tragedy in rhyme ...
... rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with sufficient cer- tainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the Indian Queen , a tragedy in rhyme ...
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