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... Prosody ( 1908 ) , ii . 458–9 . 2 Peace of the Augustans , 101 . 3 Ib . What is said about prosody in the pages that follow owes much to T. S. Omond's English Metrists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ( 1907 ) and to ...
... Prosody ( 1908 ) , ii . 458–9 . 2 Peace of the Augustans , 101 . 3 Ib . What is said about prosody in the pages that follow owes much to T. S. Omond's English Metrists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ( 1907 ) and to ...
Page 55
... prosody of Paradise Lost but are either unrimed couplets or prose cut into ten- foot lengths ; while others , dissatisfied with these pieces but failing to see where the fault lay , adopted , on the " safety first " principle , all the ...
... prosody of Paradise Lost but are either unrimed couplets or prose cut into ten- foot lengths ; while others , dissatisfied with these pieces but failing to see where the fault lay , adopted , on the " safety first " principle , all the ...
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... prosody as few others of his time did , said that the " breaks and pauses " of blank verse " are graces to which rhyme is not competent ; so broken , it loses all its music ; of which any person may convince himself by reading a page ...
... prosody as few others of his time did , said that the " breaks and pauses " of blank verse " are graces to which rhyme is not competent ; so broken , it loses all its music ; of which any person may convince himself by reading a page ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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