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PINDARIC MEASURES.

These hold an intermediate position between stanzas and continuous verse. They are divided into strophes, which seldom contain more than twenty-eight or fewer than fourteen lines. Irregularity may be said to be their law; the lines, as well as the strophes, are of different lengths, and the rhymes are arranged in half-a-dozen different ways. For an example, see p. 327. As a general rule they are in iambic measure; but trochaic lines are sometimes introduced with striking effect. Thus in Gray's Bard, which consists of nine strophes, six containing fourteen, and three twenty lines, each shorter strophe opens with a trochaic line, so as to produce the sense of abruptness which the poet was aiming

at:

Ruin seize thee, | ruthless | king, |.

Confusion on thy banners wait. [

INDEX.

Abbreviations:-Bp. for Bishop; Abp. for Archbishop flor. for floruit
(flourished); n. for note. When only one date is given, it is that of death.

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Bull, Geo. (Bp.) (1634–1710)

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152, 395

Chubb, Thos. (1679-1747)
Churchill, Chas. (1731-1764)

201

184, 304

133

Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Clarendon, Edw. Hyde, Lord
(1609-1674)

170

361

378

116

235

373

375
384

226, 326, 389, 398
Colet, Dean (1466-1519)
Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726) .
Collins, Anthony (1676-1729)
Collins, Wm. (1720-1756)
Colman, the elder (1733-1794)
Congreve, Wm. (1669-1728).
Cowley, Abr. (1618-1667)

74

136

201

185

189

135

115-7, 242, 326

Cowper, Wm. (1731-1800)

145, 377
Bulwer, Sir Edward Lytton
342, 343, 346
Bunyan, John (1628-1688) 138
Burke, Edm. (1730-1797), 194, 196
208, 210, 353-4, 391
Burnet, Gilb. (Bp.) (1643-
1715).
180, 364, 380
Burney, Frances (1752-1840)
192, 375
Burns, Robert (1759-1796), 187, 325
Burton, Robert (1576-1740). 97
Burton, T. (flor. 1645).
Butler, Alban (1710-1773)
Butler, Jos. (Bp.) (1692-1752)

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28

376

99

Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)

146, 387

228, 327

Campion, Edm. (1540-1581). 103

348

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Canning, Geo. (1770-1827)

Caradoc (circa 1150)

Carew, Thos. (died 1639) 118, 324
Carte, Thos. (1686-1754) 197, 369
Cartwright, Thos. (died 1603)
Cato, tragedy of

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262

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380

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63, 79

171

Cave, Wm. (1637-1713)
Caxton, Wm. (1412-1492)
Centlivre, Mrs. (1680-1723) .
Challoner, Bishop (1691-1781) 204
Chalmers, Alex. (1759-1834). 373
Chalmers, Thos. (1780-1847). 381
Chapman, Geo. (1557-1634).
Chatham, Lord (1708-1778). 193
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1328-
1400)
47, 60, 270, 279
Chesterfield, Lord (1694-1773) 376
Childe Harold
335

87

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