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Samuel Johnson. lines would overbalance the bad . What he had once written , he dismissed from his thoughts ; and , I believe , there is no example to be found of any correction or ... lines had their break , or caesura , DRYDEN 329.
Samuel Johnson. lines would overbalance the bad . What he had once written , he dismissed from his thoughts ; and , I believe , there is no example to be found of any correction or ... lines had their break , or caesura , DRYDEN 329.
Page 330
... lines of ten syllables , and from him Dryden professes to have adopted it . The Triplet and Alexandrine are not universally approved . Swift always censured them , and wrote some lines to ridicule them . In examining their propriety ...
... lines of ten syllables , and from him Dryden professes to have adopted it . The Triplet and Alexandrine are not universally approved . Swift always censured them , and wrote some lines to ridicule them . In examining their propriety ...
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... lines converging at a point , and is more excellent as the lines approach from greater distance : an exemplification may be considered as two parallel lines which run on together without approximation , never far separated , and never ...
... lines converging at a point , and is more excellent as the lines approach from greater distance : an exemplification may be considered as two parallel lines which run on together without approximation , never far separated , and never ...
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