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... rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in blank verse , particularly one tending to ... rhyme , was desirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no necessary ...
... rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in blank verse , particularly one tending to ... rhyme , was desirous of persuading himself that it is better . Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no necessary ...
Page 113
... 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 makes some approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
... 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 makes some approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
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... rhyme , which he defends in his dedication with sufficient cer- tainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the Indian Queen , a tragedy in rhyme . The ...
... rhyme , which he defends in his dedication with sufficient cer- tainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the Indian Queen , a tragedy in rhyme . The ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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