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She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the ' Meta- morphoses , ' and some of Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here incredulity is ready to make a stand . Many repetitions are necessary to fix in the memory lines not ...
She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the ' Meta- morphoses , ' and some of Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here incredulity is ready to make a stand . Many repetitions are necessary to fix in the memory lines not ...
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lines would overbalance the bad . ... Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse , the full - resounding line , The long majestick march ... If Cowley had sometimes a finished line , he had it by chance .
lines would overbalance the bad . ... Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse , the full - resounding line , The long majestick march ... If Cowley had sometimes a finished line , he had it by chance .
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As these lines had their break , or caesura , always at the eighth syllable , it was thought , in time , commodious to divide them ; and quatrains of lines , alternately , con- sisting of eight and six syllables , make the most soft and ...
As these lines had their break , or caesura , always at the eighth syllable , it was thought , in time , commodious to divide them ; and quatrains of lines , alternately , con- sisting of eight and six syllables , make the most soft and ...
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