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Raymond Dexter Havens. CHAPTER II BLANK VERSE AND RIME " THIS neglect then of rime , " we read in the note prefixed to Paradise Lost , " . . . is to be esteemed an example set , the first in English , of ancient liberty recovered to ...
Raymond Dexter Havens. CHAPTER II BLANK VERSE AND RIME " THIS neglect then of rime , " we read in the note prefixed to Paradise Lost , " . . . is to be esteemed an example set , the first in English , of ancient liberty recovered to ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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