Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... rhyme and dance of the numbers ; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old , and was thus made a poet as im- mediately as a child is made an eunuch . ' Eng . Poets , ix . 122 . ... Lamb , describing ' an old ...
... rhyme and dance of the numbers ; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old , and was thus made a poet as im- mediately as a child is made an eunuch . ' Eng . Poets , ix . 122 . ... Lamb , describing ' an old ...
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... rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the ...
... rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the ...
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... rhymes are very often made by pronouns or particles , or the like unimportant words , which disappoint the ear and ... rhyme which terminates them . In his rugged untuneable numbers are conveyed sentiments the most strained and ...
... rhymes are very often made by pronouns or particles , or the like unimportant words , which disappoint the ear and ... rhyme which terminates them . In his rugged untuneable numbers are conveyed sentiments the most strained and ...
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... rhyme is not competent ; so broken , it loses all its music ; of which any person may convince him- self by reading a page only of any of our poets anterior to Denham , Waller and Dryden . ' Southey's Cowper , xi . Preface , p . 13. See ...
... rhyme is not competent ; so broken , it loses all its music ; of which any person may convince him- self by reading a page only of any of our poets anterior to Denham , Waller and Dryden . ' Southey's Cowper , xi . Preface , p . 13. See ...
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... rhyme or blank verse . 29 Cooper's Hill if it be maliciously inspected will not be found without its faults . The digressions are too long , the morality too frequent , and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous ...
... rhyme or blank verse . 29 Cooper's Hill if it be maliciously inspected will not be found without its faults . The digressions are too long , the morality too frequent , and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous ...
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