A History of English Rhythms, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1838 - English language |
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... Comus . Childe Harold , 1 . All unawares Fluttering his pinions vain , plumb down he dropt Ten thousand fathom deep . Par . Lost , 2 . The pilgrim oft At dead of night , mid his orisons , hears Aghast the voice of time ! disparting tow ...
... Comus . Childe Harold , 1 . All unawares Fluttering his pinions vain , plumb down he dropt Ten thousand fathom deep . Par . Lost , 2 . The pilgrim oft At dead of night , mid his orisons , hears Aghast the voice of time ! disparting tow ...
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... Comus . I must not suffer | this : yet | ' tis but | the lees ! And settlings of a melancholy blood . Deliver us out of all : this be sy drede . Chau . Clerkes Tale . Th ' Allgiver would be unthank'd | : would be | unprais'd ] . 1 Comus ...
... Comus . I must not suffer | this : yet | ' tis but | the lees ! And settlings of a melancholy blood . Deliver us out of all : this be sy drede . Chau . Clerkes Tale . Th ' Allgiver would be unthank'd | : would be | unprais'd ] . 1 Comus ...
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... Comus . Formerly this union of the vowels was far more general . Chaucer melts the final e into the following word without * As from phant'sie came fancy , so from court'sy came courtsy . scruple , and in some cases the Anglo - Saxons C ...
... Comus . Formerly this union of the vowels was far more general . Chaucer melts the final e into the following word without * As from phant'sie came fancy , so from court'sy came courtsy . scruple , and in some cases the Anglo - Saxons C ...
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... Comus . Fletcher . Faithful Shep . 2. 2 . The poor wight is almost dead ] On the ground his wounds have bled . Fletcher . Faithful Shep . 3. 1 . She was not the | prime cause | but I myself . : Samson . The treach ' rous colours : the ...
... Comus . Fletcher . Faithful Shep . 2. 2 . The poor wight is almost dead ] On the ground his wounds have bled . Fletcher . Faithful Shep . 3. 1 . She was not the | prime cause | but I myself . : Samson . The treach ' rous colours : the ...
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... Comus . The more correct schools of Dryden and Pope care- fully avoided this error , but our modern poets are not so scrupulous . The faults of the Elizabethan writers are more readily caught than their beauties ; Decipit exemplar ...
... Comus . The more correct schools of Dryden and Pope care- fully avoided this error , but our modern poets are not so scrupulous . The faults of the Elizabethan writers are more readily caught than their beauties ; Decipit exemplar ...
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accented syllable adjective alliteration alliterative couplet Anglo-Saxon poems Anglo-Saxon verse Bonduca Bruce Burns Cadmon Cæd century Chau Chaucer common compound section Comus consonant couplet Cynthia's Revels dialects dipthong dissyllable doth doubt dramatists Drayton elided elision English rhythms eyes final rhime five accents Fletcher four accents gret hallig hath Jons King Knightes Tale L'Allegro lable language Latin Layamon Lear letters Lord metre middle pause Milton occasionally Olaus Wormius old English orthography Othello Ploughman poetry poets preposition Prol pronounced pronunciation Puttenham quantity rare rhime rhiming syllables rule Sackville Samson Agon sectional pause short vowel Shrew Siege of Leith six accents sometimes Song sound Spenser substantive thee ther thou three accents triple measure tumbling verse Tusser unaccented syllable verb verse of four verse of six Verses beginning verses of five vowel wæs Wallace word writers