Poems and Prose of John DrydenPenguin Books, 1955 - 356 pages |
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Page 212
... rhyme is there as natural and more effectual than blank verse . ' And now having laid down this as a foundation , to be- gin with Crites , I must crave leave to tell him , that some of his arguments against rhyme reach no farther than ...
... rhyme is there as natural and more effectual than blank verse . ' And now having laid down this as a foundation , to be- gin with Crites , I must crave leave to tell him , that some of his arguments against rhyme reach no farther than ...
Page 213
... rhyme to it . If you object that one verse may be made for the sake of another , though both the words and rhyme be apt , I answer it cannot possibly so fall out ; for either there is a dependence of sense betwixt the first line and the ...
... rhyme to it . If you object that one verse may be made for the sake of another , though both the words and rhyme be apt , I answer it cannot possibly so fall out ; for either there is a dependence of sense betwixt the first line and the ...
Page 214
... Rhyme . This new way consisted in measure or number of feet and rhyme . The sweetness of rhyme and observa- tion of accent supplying the place of quantity in words , which could neither exactly be observed by those bar- barians who knew ...
... Rhyme . This new way consisted in measure or number of feet and rhyme . The sweetness of rhyme and observa- tion of accent supplying the place of quantity in words , which could neither exactly be observed by those bar- barians who knew ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
PROLOGUE TO THE TEMPEST 1670 | 97 |
PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY | 104 |
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