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Page 49
... rime but more often read the poems that were without it , whereas more discriminating persons , though well disposed towards blank verse at its best , were disturbed by the crudities of the works written in it ; that during the first ...
... rime but more often read the poems that were without it , whereas more discriminating persons , though well disposed towards blank verse at its best , were disturbed by the crudities of the works written in it ; that during the first ...
Page 51
... rime both in longer and shorter works . . . as a thing of itself , to all judicious ears , trivial and of no true musical delight . " Echoes of this preface to Paradise Lost , or direct quotations from it , appear so frequently ...
... rime both in longer and shorter works . . . as a thing of itself , to all judicious ears , trivial and of no true musical delight . " Echoes of this preface to Paradise Lost , or direct quotations from it , appear so frequently ...
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... rime , and later translators in general have less to say about them than did the earlier . But the opposition has not so much decreased as shifted its ground : modern poets feel more subtle objections . Rime seems to them , in the words ...
... rime , and later translators in general have less to say about them than did the earlier . But the opposition has not so much decreased as shifted its ground : modern poets feel more subtle objections . Rime seems to them , in the words ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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