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Page 132
... 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 ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had ...
... 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 ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had ...
Page 133
... 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 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 approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
Page 204
... rhymes are sometimes weak words : so is found to make the rhyme twice in ten lines , and occurs often as a rhyme through his book . His double rhymes , in heroick verse , have been cen- sured by Mrs. Phillips , who was his rival in the ...
... rhymes are sometimes weak words : so is found to make the rhyme twice in ten lines , and occurs often as a rhyme through his book . His double rhymes , in heroick verse , have been cen- sured by Mrs. Phillips , who was his rival in the ...
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