A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 225
... rhyme which none of the ancients authorized by their example , and not to try to dispense with it when translating their hexameters ? Surrey's blank verse is simply the decasyllabic or heroic metre shorn of its rhymes . Of classical ...
... rhyme which none of the ancients authorized by their example , and not to try to dispense with it when translating their hexameters ? Surrey's blank verse is simply the decasyllabic or heroic metre shorn of its rhymes . Of classical ...
Page 257
... rhyme altogether , or relegating it to the domain of humorous verse . But Eliza- bethan poetry proscribed nothing , and used feminine rhymes abundantly , never , however , in obedience to a mechanical external law , but always to ...
... rhyme altogether , or relegating it to the domain of humorous verse . But Eliza- bethan poetry proscribed nothing , and used feminine rhymes abundantly , never , however , in obedience to a mechanical external law , but always to ...
Page 358
... rhyme , which exists and pleases many nations , is a matter for discussion , he does not shirk the task of founding ... rhymes for songs . But these are personal tastes , as he himself knows and says , and modestly refuses to erect them ...
... rhyme , which exists and pleases many nations , is a matter for discussion , he does not shirk the task of founding ... rhymes for songs . But these are personal tastes , as he himself knows and says , and modestly refuses to erect them ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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