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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 - sequence is rarely found , and not until 1790 did the pieces employing it equal in number those using the Petrarchan . These facts are the more impressive because the Italian system is much the more difficult , because its ...
... rime - sequence is rarely found , and not until 1790 did the pieces employing it equal in number those using the Petrarchan . These facts are the more impressive because the Italian system is much the more difficult , because its ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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