Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in blank verse ; particularly one tending to ... rhyme , was desirous of persuading himself that it is better These Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no necessary ...
... rhyme ; and , besides our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in blank verse ; particularly one tending to ... rhyme , was desirous of persuading himself that it is better These Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no necessary ...
Page 138
... rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself . Blank verse makes some approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
... rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to support itself . Blank verse makes some approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the ...
Page 168
... rhymes , our Thor and Woden spoke . The oak , as I think Gildon has observed , belonged to the British druids , and ... rhyme , he may justly be expected to give the sense of Horace with great exactness , and to suppress no subtilty of ...
... rhymes , our Thor and Woden spoke . The oak , as I think Gildon has observed , belonged to the British druids , and ... rhyme , he may justly be expected to give the sense of Horace with great exactness , and to suppress no subtilty of ...
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