The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 46
... cæsura , and a full stop , will equally effect . Of triplets in his Davideis he makes no use , and perhaps did not at first think them allowable ; but he appears after- wards to have changed his mind , for , in the verses on the ...
... cæsura , and a full stop , will equally effect . Of triplets in his Davideis he makes no use , and perhaps did not at first think them allowable ; but he appears after- wards to have changed his mind , for , in the verses on the ...
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... cæsura , always at the eighth syllable , it was thought , in time , commodious to divide them : and quatrains of lines , alternately , consisting of eight and six syllables , make the most soft and pleasing of our lyric measures : as ...
... cæsura , always at the eighth syllable , it was thought , in time , commodious to divide them : and quatrains of lines , alternately , consisting of eight and six syllables , make the most soft and pleasing of our lyric measures : as ...
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