The North American Review, Volume 107University of Northern Iowa, 1868 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 214
... verse would suit the epic style better , and he proposes to try it with Homer , but at last translates one book as a ... verse , and his " Odyssee " in the very metre that Dryden himself used in his own version . † I remark also what he ...
... verse would suit the epic style better , and he proposes to try it with Homer , but at last translates one book as a ... verse , and his " Odyssee " in the very metre that Dryden himself used in his own version . † I remark also what he ...
Page 226
... verse is , that his sense is too ample to be concluded by the distich . Rhyme had been censured as unnatural in dialogue ; but Dryden replies that it is no more so than blank verse , since no man talks any kind of verse in real life ...
... verse is , that his sense is too ample to be concluded by the distich . Rhyme had been censured as unnatural in dialogue ; but Dryden replies that it is no more so than blank verse , since no man talks any kind of verse in real life ...
Page 228
... 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 modulation for what it loses in the melody of rhyme . In what ...
... 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 modulation for what it loses in the melody of rhyme . In what ...
Contents
LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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