Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 4Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851 - Anecdotes |
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... Hexameters.1 HE frequent occurrence of monosyllables is unfavour- able to hexameters in our language . The omission of the e in the imperfect and participle , the contraction of the genitive , these also by shortening words increase the ...
... Hexameters.1 HE frequent occurrence of monosyllables is unfavour- able to hexameters in our language . The omission of the e in the imperfect and participle , the contraction of the genitive , these also by shortening words increase the ...
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... hexameters into our lan- guage . A scattered party of fifty or a hun- dred do nothing ; but if I march a regular army of some thousands into the country , well disciplined , and on a good plan , they will effect their establishment . My ...
... hexameters into our lan- guage . A scattered party of fifty or a hun- dred do nothing ; but if I march a regular army of some thousands into the country , well disciplined , and on a good plan , they will effect their establishment . My ...
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... green ' of an evening sky , till he saw it on his voyage to India . - Journal , vol . 1 , p . lvii . English Hexameters.1 HE frequent occurrence of monosyllables is unfavour- able ON . 7 IDEAS AND STUDIES FOR LITERARY COMPOSITION .
... green ' of an evening sky , till he saw it on his voyage to India . - Journal , vol . 1 , p . lvii . English Hexameters.1 HE frequent occurrence of monosyllables is unfavour- able ON . 7 IDEAS AND STUDIES FOR LITERARY COMPOSITION .
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... Hexameters.1 HE frequent occurrence of monosyllables is unfavour- able to hexameters in our language . The omission of the e in the imperfect and participle , the contraction of the genitive , these also by shortening words increase the ...
... Hexameters.1 HE frequent occurrence of monosyllables is unfavour- able to hexameters in our language . The omission of the e in the imperfect and participle , the contraction of the genitive , these also by shortening words increase the ...
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... hexameters into our lan- guage . A scattered party of fifty or a hun- dred do nothing ; but if I march a regular army of some thousands into the country , well disciplined , and on a good plan , they will effect their establishment . My ...
... hexameters into our lan- guage . A scattered party of fifty or a hun- dred do nothing ; but if I march a regular army of some thousands into the country , well disciplined , and on a good plan , they will effect their establishment . My ...
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