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... couplet . To us this seems easy enough to do , because it has been done for over a century ; but if Thomson , Glover , and the rest could hardly keep their blank verse from slip- ping back into unrimed couplets , they certainly could ...
... couplet . To us this seems easy enough to do , because it has been done for over a century ; but if Thomson , Glover , and the rest could hardly keep their blank verse from slip- ping back into unrimed couplets , they certainly could ...
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... couplet , but his fingers had be- come so adapted to the material with which they worked that they involuntarily shaped the new product with the old touch . In the early eighteenth century , good blank verse and good couplets stood ...
... couplet , but his fingers had be- come so adapted to the material with which they worked that they involuntarily shaped the new product with the old touch . In the early eighteenth century , good blank verse and good couplets stood ...
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... couplet - ending . We read in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1786 : " Of Milton's English sonnets , only that to Oliver Cromwell ends with a couplet ; but that single instance is a sufficient precedent . However , in three out of his five ...
... couplet - ending . We read in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1786 : " Of Milton's English sonnets , only that to Oliver Cromwell ends with a couplet ; but that single instance is a sufficient precedent . However , in three out of his five ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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