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... verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . ( He was desirous to use English words with a ... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and ...
... verse , he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . ( He was desirous to use English words with a ... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and ...
Page 113
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critic , seems to be verse only to the eye > Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself .
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critic , seems to be verse only to the eye > Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself .
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... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose that the ...
... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose that the ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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