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Pagina 61
... Poetry's unnatʼral ; no man ever talked poetry ' cept a beadle on boxin ' day , or Warren's blackin ' , or Rowland's oil , or some o ' them low fellows ; never you let yourself down to talk poetry , my boy . Begin agin , Sammy ...
... Poetry's unnatʼral ; no man ever talked poetry ' cept a beadle on boxin ' day , or Warren's blackin ' , or Rowland's oil , or some o ' them low fellows ; never you let yourself down to talk poetry , my boy . Begin agin , Sammy ...
Pagina 204
... POETRY 66 ( a ) " Sir , what is poetry ? " 66 Why , Sir , it is much easier to say what it is not . We all know what light is , but it is not easy to tell what it is . " ( BOSWELL , Life of Johnson . ) ( b ) A poet soaring in the high ...
... POETRY 66 ( a ) " Sir , what is poetry ? " 66 Why , Sir , it is much easier to say what it is not . We all know what light is , but it is not easy to tell what it is . " ( BOSWELL , Life of Johnson . ) ( b ) A poet soaring in the high ...
Pagina 205
William Jayne Weston. And this is how Macaulay explains what poetry is : By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which , on other grounds ...
William Jayne Weston. And this is how Macaulay explains what poetry is : By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which , on other grounds ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing