Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 4Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851 - Anecdotes |
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... blank verse , hexameters may run into each other , but the sentence must not , I think , close with a hemistich ... verse . Arquibussier Irregular Blank Verse . Or metres that must be the best which being harmonious enough to the ...
... blank verse , hexameters may run into each other , but the sentence must not , I think , close with a hemistich ... verse . Arquibussier Irregular Blank Verse . Or metres that must be the best which being harmonious enough to the ...
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... blank verse , hexameters may run into each other , but the sentence must not , I think , close with a hemistich ... verse . Arquibussier Irregular Blank Verse . Or metres that must be the best which being harmonious enough to the ...
... blank verse , hexameters may run into each other , but the sentence must not , I think , close with a hemistich ... verse . Arquibussier Irregular Blank Verse . Or metres that must be the best which being harmonious enough to the ...
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... blank verse poems , and to increase my range and power of lan- guage.1 But the chain must be as loose as possible , an unrhymed line may often pass without offending the ear . Like the Emperor of China's lying fiddler , he may be silent ...
... blank verse poems , and to increase my range and power of lan- guage.1 But the chain must be as loose as possible , an unrhymed line may often pass without offending the ear . Like the Emperor of China's lying fiddler , he may be silent ...
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... blank verse . It might conclude with a solemn repetition of the curses denounced against those who should violate the charter . The Discovery of America , an ode . - Be- neficial to Europe , not for its gold , not for the conversion ...
... blank verse . It might conclude with a solemn repetition of the curses denounced against those who should violate the charter . The Discovery of America , an ode . - Be- neficial to Europe , not for its gold , not for the conversion ...
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... blank verse ; but certainly he had not a good ear for rhyme , unless a broad provincial pronunci- ation had corrupted it . I am far from ob- jecting to imperfect rhymes when they are properly disposed ; but they offend the ear greatly ...
... blank verse ; but certainly he had not a good ear for rhyme , unless a broad provincial pronunci- ation had corrupted it . I am far from ob- jecting to imperfect rhymes when they are properly disposed ; but they offend the ear greatly ...
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