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... move- ment in English verse depends upon the play of the natural sense movement and intonation against the verse structure , and that ' natural , ' here , involves a reference , more or less direct , to idiomatic speech . The develop ...
... move- ment in English verse depends upon the play of the natural sense movement and intonation against the verse structure , and that ' natural , ' here , involves a reference , more or less direct , to idiomatic speech . The develop ...
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... moves outwards and upwards towards life as strongly as it moves downwards towards extinction ; the Ode is , in fact , an extremely subtle and varied interplay of motions , directed now positively , now negatively . Consider the opening ...
... moves outwards and upwards towards life as strongly as it moves downwards towards extinction ; the Ode is , in fact , an extremely subtle and varied interplay of motions , directed now positively , now negatively . Consider the opening ...
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... move- ment - inert ' only by comparison and in immediate effect , while the ear has not yet dropped the habit of expectancy brought away from the first version . The new verse moves line by line , the characteristic single line having ...
... move- ment - inert ' only by comparison and in immediate effect , while the ear has not yet dropped the habit of expectancy brought away from the first version . The new verse moves line by line , the characteristic single line having ...
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THE LINE OF | 10 |
Note Popes Satiric Modes | 92 |
THE AUGUSTAN TRADITION | 101 |
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