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... couplet , but his fingers had be- come so adapted to the material with which they worked that they involuntarily shaped the new product with the old touch . In the early eighteenth century , good blank verse and good couplets stood ...
... couplet , but his fingers had be- come so adapted to the material with which they worked that they involuntarily shaped the new product with the old touch . In the early eighteenth century , good blank verse and good couplets stood ...
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... couplet - ending , perhaps the most universal and distinctive feature of the Elizabethan sonnet.1 Yet few even ... couplet is likely to be isolated from the rest of the poem , because 1 Sidney has twenty - five quatorzains that do ...
... couplet - ending , perhaps the most universal and distinctive feature of the Elizabethan sonnet.1 Yet few even ... couplet is likely to be isolated from the rest of the poem , because 1 Sidney has twenty - five quatorzains that do ...
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... couplet , " Crabb Robinson noted , “ and he holds it to be absolutely a vice to have a sharp turning at the end with an epigrammatic point . " Yet he used the couplet - ending one hundred times . He also did not approve " of uniformly ...
... couplet , " Crabb Robinson noted , “ and he holds it to be absolutely a vice to have a sharp turning at the end with an epigrammatic point . " Yet he used the couplet - ending one hundred times . He also did not approve " of uniformly ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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