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The measure , he says , is the English heroick verse without rhyme . Of this mode he had many examples among the Italians , and some in his own country . The Earl of Surrey is said to have translated one of Virgil's books without rhyme ...
The measure , he says , is the English heroick verse without rhyme . Of this mode he had many examples among the Italians , and some in his own country . The Earl of Surrey is said to have translated one of Virgil's books without rhyme ...
Page 81
Poetry may subsist without 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 approach to that which is called the lapidary ...
Poetry may subsist without 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 approach to that which is called the lapidary ...
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In this play he made his essay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with sufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in ...
In this play he made his essay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with sufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Robert Montagu |
| Publisher | Folio Society, 1965 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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