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... English verse before " Mr. Waller refined our numbers , " this would seem to be an easy question to answer . Surely the masters of the couplet had little admiration 1 2d ed . , xi . 409. Cf. John Duncombe's ode to the Earl of Corke ...
... English verse before " Mr. Waller refined our numbers , " this would seem to be an easy question to answer . Surely the masters of the couplet had little admiration 1 2d ed . , xi . 409. Cf. John Duncombe's ode to the Earl of Corke ...
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... English head . ” 1 Some of the poets and theorists of this period , and many in that which followed , were also knocking into their own and other English heads a sense of irregular rhythm , a realization , to quote the same authority ...
... English head . ” 1 Some of the poets and theorists of this period , and many in that which followed , were also knocking into their own and other English heads a sense of irregular rhythm , a realization , to quote the same authority ...
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... English translator will nowhere find " ; but he sweeps aside the diffi- culty in his most Olympian manner by declaring , " This is an objec- tion which can best be met by producing good English hexameters . " 2 Well , sixty more years ...
... English translator will nowhere find " ; but he sweeps aside the diffi- culty in his most Olympian manner by declaring , " This is an objec- tion which can best be met by producing good English hexameters . " 2 Well , sixty more years ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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