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... blank verse almost entirely from his recollection of the original . Moreover , though Birkbeck Hill would sometimes regret the excessive influence of the utilitarianism with which he was surrounded in childhood and early youth , yet to ...
... blank verse almost entirely from his recollection of the original . Moreover , though Birkbeck Hill would sometimes regret the excessive influence of the utilitarianism with which he was surrounded in childhood and early youth , yet to ...
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... blank verse , con- tinues : - ' But these are graces to which 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 ...
... blank verse , con- tinues : - ' But these are graces to which 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 ...
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... blank verse . Cooper's Hill if it be maliciously inspected will not be found without its faults . The digressions ... verses , which , since Dryden has commended them3 , almost every writer for a century past has imitated * , are ...
... blank verse . Cooper's Hill if it be maliciously inspected will not be found without its faults . The digressions ... verses , which , since Dryden has commended them3 , almost every writer for a century past has imitated * , are ...
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... verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the Church by some lines which are ... blank verse . ' HAW- KINS , Hist . of Music , iv . 52 , where the music to Sweet Echo is given . See Milton's Sonnet ...
... verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the Church by some lines which are ... blank verse . ' HAW- KINS , Hist . of Music , iv . 52 , where the music to Sweet Echo is given . See Milton's Sonnet ...
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... Blank verse makes some approach to that which is called the lapidary style . ' ' In lapidary inscriptions , ' he said , ' a man is not upon oath . ' Boswell's Johnson , ii . 407. For Dati's inscription and Francini's ode see Milton's ...
... Blank verse makes some approach to that which is called the lapidary style . ' ' In lapidary inscriptions , ' he said , ' a man is not upon oath . ' Boswell's Johnson , ii . 407. For Dati's inscription and Francini's ode see Milton's ...
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