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... Nature , when he ceas'd to see , Milton's an universal Blank to me . Confirm'd and settled by the Nations voice , Rhyme is the poet's pride , and peoples choice . ... 1 Nothing is here said about Shakespeare , for dramatic blank verse ...
... Nature , when he ceas'd to see , Milton's an universal Blank to me . Confirm'd and settled by the Nations voice , Rhyme is the poet's pride , and peoples choice . ... 1 Nothing is here said about Shakespeare , for dramatic blank verse ...
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... nature , or where the greater passions , as Terror , and Pity , are to be excited . . . Rhime may , with great propriety , be dis- pensed with . " Cf. John Armstrong ( Sketches , 1758 , p . 33 ) , “ Blank verse . . . is fittest for ...
... nature , or where the greater passions , as Terror , and Pity , are to be excited . . . Rhime may , with great propriety , be dis- pensed with . " Cf. John Armstrong ( Sketches , 1758 , p . 33 ) , “ Blank verse . . . is fittest for ...
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... nature of the eighteenth century more clearly than this fear , which , based as it was on the realization that there was no essential difference between the prose and much of the verse of the period , led to the creation of mechanical ...
... nature of the eighteenth century more clearly than this fear , which , based as it was on the realization that there was no essential difference between the prose and much of the verse of the period , led to the creation of mechanical ...
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... Nature , hold . Sable - vested Night , eldest of things , The consort of his reign . The neighbouring moon ( So call that opposite fair star ) . 1 v . 5 ; ix . 457–8 ; x . 366 ; v . 207 , 210 ; ii . 703 . i . 141-2 ; ii . 357-8 , 1047-8 ...
... Nature , hold . Sable - vested Night , eldest of things , The consort of his reign . The neighbouring moon ( So call that opposite fair star ) . 1 v . 5 ; ix . 457–8 ; x . 366 ; v . 207 , 210 ; ii . 703 . i . 141-2 ; ii . 357-8 , 1047-8 ...
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... nature of his principal poem had not a little to do with the admiration he received . In the first sixty years after ... natural . . . . Rhimes . . . do but emasculate Heroick Verse , and give it an unnatural Softness . In Songs ...
... nature of his principal poem had not a little to do with the admiration he received . In the first sixty years after ... natural . . . . Rhimes . . . do but emasculate Heroick Verse , and give it an unnatural Softness . In Songs ...
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