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Chapman's " Iliad " is done in fourteen - syllable verse , and his " Odyssee " in the very metre that Dryden himself used in his own version . † I remark also what he says of the couplet , that it was easy because the second verse ...
Chapman's " Iliad " is done in fourteen - syllable verse , and his " Odyssee " in the very metre that Dryden himself used in his own version . † I remark also what he says of the couplet , that it was easy because the second verse ...
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But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it : he first made writing easily an art ; first showed us to conclude the sense , most commonly in distiches , which in the verse before him runs on for ...
But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it : he first made writing easily an art ; first showed us to conclude the sense , most commonly in distiches , which in the verse before him runs on for ...
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and Dryden himself found out , when he came to try it , that blank verse was not so easy a thing as he at first conceived it , nay , that it is the most difficult of all verse , and that it must make up in harmony , by variety of pause ...
and Dryden himself found out , when he came to try it , that blank verse was not so easy a thing as he at first conceived it , nay , that it is the most difficult of all verse , and that it must make up in harmony , by variety of pause ...
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LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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