English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940 - 460 pages |
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... sound it , according to our English march , we must make a rest , and raise the last syllable , which falls out very unnatural in desolate , funeral , Elizabeth , prodigal , and in all the rest , saving the mono- syllables . Then ...
... sound it , according to our English march , we must make a rest , and raise the last syllable , which falls out very unnatural in desolate , funeral , Elizabeth , prodigal , and in all the rest , saving the mono- syllables . Then ...
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... sound of a verse— None thinks reward rend'red worthy his worth , unless you thus misplace the accent upon ' rend'red ' and ' worthy ' , contrary to the nature of these words : which showeth that two feminine numbers ( or trochees , if ...
... sound of a verse— None thinks reward rend'red worthy his worth , unless you thus misplace the accent upon ' rend'red ' and ' worthy ' , contrary to the nature of these words : which showeth that two feminine numbers ( or trochees , if ...
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... sound , though almost vanishing before they reached them , yet still seeming to retain somewhat of their first horror , which they had betwixt the fleets . After they had attentively listened till such time as the sound by little and ...
... sound , though almost vanishing before they reached them , yet still seeming to retain somewhat of their first horror , which they had betwixt the fleets . After they had attentively listened till such time as the sound by little and ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
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