A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 91
... lines , too , make an excellent metre for the martial romances of Scott , but they would be intolerable in a true epic or a drama . As the basis of a lyrical stanza , however , the line has no such limitations . In short passages , it ...
... lines , too , make an excellent metre for the martial romances of Scott , but they would be intolerable in a true epic or a drama . As the basis of a lyrical stanza , however , the line has no such limitations . In short passages , it ...
Pagina 96
... lines of such writing , the reader is already weary of its monotony . Eight of the lines are self - contained , as the final comma shows , and in rhythm are very nearly identical . Line b , it is true , begins with a trochee , but that ...
... lines of such writing , the reader is already weary of its monotony . Eight of the lines are self - contained , as the final comma shows , and in rhythm are very nearly identical . Line b , it is true , begins with a trochee , but that ...
Pagina 103
... lines has a beautiful structure , and is elaborately rhymed : ababbcbcc . A form of such difficulty would seem to ... lines , consists of two unequal parts : the octave ( eight lines ) and the sestet ( six lines ) . The rhyme- scheme of ...
... lines has a beautiful structure , and is elaborately rhymed : ababbcbcc . A form of such difficulty would seem to ... lines , consists of two unequal parts : the octave ( eight lines ) and the sestet ( six lines ) . The rhyme- scheme of ...
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