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... Verse appears so gentle and flowing as to incur the Censure of Feebleness , I may honestly affirm that sometimes it cost me labour to make it so : some of the beauties of poesy are neglected , and some wilfully defaced [ omitting ' gay ...
... Verse appears so gentle and flowing as to incur the Censure of Feebleness , I may honestly affirm that sometimes it cost me labour to make it so : some of the beauties of poesy are neglected , and some wilfully defaced [ omitting ' gay ...
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... verse . For example , Thomas Campion's treatise of 1602 starts with some promising analogies with music , but later loses itself in trying to fit English verse into classical categories . Robert Bridges , whose theory of stress - meas ...
... verse . For example , Thomas Campion's treatise of 1602 starts with some promising analogies with music , but later loses itself in trying to fit English verse into classical categories . Robert Bridges , whose theory of stress - meas ...
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... her ears . So cruel , alas , is nought alive , So fierce , so froward , so out of frame ; But some way , some time , may so contrive By means the wild to temper and tame . In analysing the strange music of Wyatt's verse , however 52.
... her ears . So cruel , alas , is nought alive , So fierce , so froward , so out of frame ; But some way , some time , may so contrive By means the wild to temper and tame . In analysing the strange music of Wyatt's verse , however 52.
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