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His rhyming sounds rarely recur quickly ; they are quite generally monosyllabic for maximum effect . ... The skillful use of sound effects like alliteration and assonance further contributes to the variety and melodic pleasure of ...
His rhyming sounds rarely recur quickly ; they are quite generally monosyllabic for maximum effect . ... The skillful use of sound effects like alliteration and assonance further contributes to the variety and melodic pleasure of ...
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Gray seems in his rapture to confound the images of “ spreading sound ” and “ running water . ” A “ stream of musick ” may be allowed ; but where does Musick , however " smooth and strong , " after having visited the " verdant vales ...
Gray seems in his rapture to confound the images of “ spreading sound ” and “ running water . ” A “ stream of musick ” may be allowed ; but where does Musick , however " smooth and strong , " after having visited the " verdant vales ...
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Methinks Till now I never heard a sound so dreary . Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rooked in the spire , screams loud ; the gloomy aisles , Black - plastered , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And ...
Methinks Till now I never heard a sound so dreary . Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rooked in the spire , screams loud ; the gloomy aisles , Black - plastered , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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