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 great ...
... 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 great ...
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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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... rhyme and volubility of syllables 3 . I 3 Johnson defines subtlety ( he spells it subtilty ) as ' thinness ; fine- ness ; exility of parts . ' Exility he does not give in his Dictionary . 2 Some to Conceit alone their taste confine ...
... rhyme and volubility of syllables 3 . I 3 Johnson defines subtlety ( he spells it subtilty ) as ' thinness ; fine- ness ; exility of parts . ' Exility he does not give in his Dictionary . 2 Some to Conceit alone their taste confine ...
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... rhyming prose : ' But in this thankless world the giver [ givers ] Is [ Are ] envied even by the receiver [ receivers ] ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal_fashion Rather to hide than own [ pay ] the obligation : Nay , ' tis much worse ...
... rhyming prose : ' But in this thankless world the giver [ givers ] Is [ Are ] envied even by the receiver [ receivers ] ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal_fashion Rather to hide than own [ pay ] the obligation : Nay , ' tis much worse ...
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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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