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Joseph Warton. tetes the chorus takes a natural occafion , at verse 694 , to give a minute and moving pic- ture of the folitary 1.fe of that unfortunate hero ; and when afterwards at verse 855 , pain has totally exhausted the ftrength ...
Joseph Warton. tetes the chorus takes a natural occafion , at verse 694 , to give a minute and moving pic- ture of the folitary 1.fe of that unfortunate hero ; and when afterwards at verse 855 , pain has totally exhausted the ftrength ...
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... verse should be lengthened to exprefs speed , will not easily be discovered . In the dactyls , used for that purpose by the ancients , two short fyllables were pronounced with such rapidity , as to be equal only to one long ; they ...
... verse should be lengthened to exprefs speed , will not easily be discovered . In the dactyls , used for that purpose by the ancients , two short fyllables were pronounced with such rapidity , as to be equal only to one long ; they ...
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... verses of TWELVE fyllables , as more folemn and majestic . And this was the origin , though but little known , of those verses which we now call ALEXANDRINES ; the French heroic measure : the name being de- rived from Alexander , the ...
... verses of TWELVE fyllables , as more folemn and majestic . And this was the origin , though but little known , of those verses which we now call ALEXANDRINES ; the French heroic measure : the name being de- rived from Alexander , the ...
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